Group policy preferences also known as GP have been available since Windows Server 2008 and whilst different
to group policy they are both managed through the group policy management console as with group policy.
GP has various options that can be configured on the both user configuration and computer configuration.
The configuration options that are available vary depending on which of these options you are configuring.
Although there are many options within user and computer configuration that can be configured the specifics
of each individual want are outside the scope of this course.
However a couple of options that are often used on real world systems and that are common to both user
and computer configuration or the registry ensure code settings.
So let's use these as an example of what you might come across when configuring options to access the
registry configuration settings click on registry on the left hand side of the screen to create a new
registry key right click on registry go to new and then registry item you will then see the new registry
item dialog box.
The first thing to do here is to select an action from the drop down menu.
The action's available here.
Create replace update and delete the create option it creates a new registry key with the settings you
specified the replace option overwrite any existing settings including those that aren't specified already
the update option applies any settings that aren't there already but leaves existing settings alone
to delete option delete the registry key that you specified you will then need to specify the hive key
path and data for the registry key.
This can normally be obtained from an existing computer on your network using the register utility.
Once you've done this click on okay to save the settings.
The other example we're going to go over here is the Shawcross option compared to the registry option.
This is relatively straightforward to set up a shortcut called right click on shortcut.
Go to new and then click on your course for this one just specify the name and target of the sure and
then click Okay.
The newly created your corp will then appear on the right hand side of the screen.
Now that we've gone over the basics of group policy preferences let's move on to group policy replication.