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Although group policy itself has been around since Windows 2000 there have been some minor changes over

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the years since it was first launched.

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Meaning that some of the policies designed to earlier versions of Windows may not have any effect on

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the weight of Asians and vice versa.

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To find out which offering system a group policy option is designed for go into the policy by right

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clicking on it and then clicking on at it right click on the option itself and then click as it's again

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the list of supported operating systems should then be listed in the supported on section.

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Note that although an operating system may be listed as supported by group policy this doesn't mean

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it supports it for continued use.

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For example support for Windows XP expires in April 2014 although this information is available here.

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It's still very important to test group policies before rolling them up properly as it will help iron

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out any issues before they are noticed by end users.

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A good example of a policy designed for an earlier Windows version is the proxy service settings for

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Internet Explorer.

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This being the proxy settings for any version until version 9 are controlled by a normal group policy

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whereas the settings for Internet Explorer evasion tan and above are control via group policy preferences

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group policy preferences is explained in more detail later in the course.

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This means that if you have multiple versions of Windows ruling in your corporate network you may need

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to configure two different options within group policy.

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It's worth noting here that Windows tank comms with Internet Explorer 11 and can't be downgraded.

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So if your entire network is running Windows 10 you will only need to configure one setting for this

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policy.

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Also the version of group policy management console itself varies between systems meaning that if you

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have the latest version on one machine and an earlier version or another machine you may have trouble

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adjusting so group policies.

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For this reason it is important to have the same version of this console on all machines that are being

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used to administer group policy.

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Finally only the latest versions of the remote server administration tools also known as RSS have the

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capability to create or edit group policy preferences meaning that you will need to take this into account

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if managing an environment that makes use of group policy preferences.

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Now that we've gone over policy differences let's move on to w Am I might filters.