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Group policy preferences also known as GP have been available since Windows Server 2008 and whilst different

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to group policy they are both managed through the group policy management console as with group policy.

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GP has various options that can be configured on the both user configuration and computer configuration.

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The configuration options that are available vary depending on which of these options you are configuring.

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Although there are many options within user and computer configuration that can be configured the specifics

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of each individual want are outside the scope of this course.

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However a couple of options that are often used on real world systems and that are common to both user

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and computer configuration or the registry ensure code settings.

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So let's use these as an example of what you might come across when configuring options to access the

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registry configuration settings click on registry on the left hand side of the screen to create a new

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registry key right click on registry go to new and then registry item you will then see the new registry

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item dialog box.

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The first thing to do here is to select an action from the drop down menu.

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The action's available here.

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Create replace update and delete the create option it creates a new registry key with the settings you

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specified the replace option overwrite any existing settings including those that aren't specified already

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the update option applies any settings that aren't there already but leaves existing settings alone

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to delete option delete the registry key that you specified you will then need to specify the hive key

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path and data for the registry key.

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This can normally be obtained from an existing computer on your network using the register utility.

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Once you've done this click on okay to save the settings.

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The other example we're going to go over here is the Shawcross option compared to the registry option.

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This is relatively straightforward to set up a shortcut called right click on shortcut.

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Go to new and then click on your course for this one just specify the name and target of the sure and

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then click Okay.

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The newly created your corp will then appear on the right hand side of the screen.

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Now that we've gone over the basics of group policy preferences let's move on to group policy replication.