Although group policy itself has been around since Windows 2000 there have been some minor changes over
the years since it was first launched.
Meaning that some of the policies designed to earlier versions of Windows may not have any effect on
the weight of Asians and vice versa.
To find out which offering system a group policy option is designed for go into the policy by right
clicking on it and then clicking on at it right click on the option itself and then click as it's again
the list of supported operating systems should then be listed in the supported on section.
Note that although an operating system may be listed as supported by group policy this doesn't mean
it supports it for continued use.
For example support for Windows XP expires in April 2014 although this information is available here.
It's still very important to test group policies before rolling them up properly as it will help iron
out any issues before they are noticed by end users.
A good example of a policy designed for an earlier Windows version is the proxy service settings for
Internet Explorer.
This being the proxy settings for any version until version 9 are controlled by a normal group policy
whereas the settings for Internet Explorer evasion tan and above are control via group policy preferences
group policy preferences is explained in more detail later in the course.
This means that if you have multiple versions of Windows ruling in your corporate network you may need
to configure two different options within group policy.
It's worth noting here that Windows tank comms with Internet Explorer 11 and can't be downgraded.
So if your entire network is running Windows 10 you will only need to configure one setting for this
policy.
Also the version of group policy management console itself varies between systems meaning that if you
have the latest version on one machine and an earlier version or another machine you may have trouble
adjusting so group policies.
For this reason it is important to have the same version of this console on all machines that are being
used to administer group policy.
Finally only the latest versions of the remote server administration tools also known as RSS have the
capability to create or edit group policy preferences meaning that you will need to take this into account
if managing an environment that makes use of group policy preferences.
Now that we've gone over policy differences let's move on to w Am I might filters.