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Group Policy Preference Client Side Extensions |
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Wednesday, 27 February 2008
by Michel Roth
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Group Policy Preferences is one of the new features of Windows Server 2008 that I am most exited about . Since Group Policy Preferences are different from Group Policies, you need a client to use Group Policy Preferences. With Windows Server 2008 knocking on the door, the "clients" have been made available.
For those of you unfamiliar with Group Policy Preferences, Group Policy Preferences allow you to do all the things with Group Policy that you want to today but just can’t. Now you can do all of the stuff that you currently need to do in a Login script from Group Policy. Read my rant on Group Policy Preferences for more information.
Like I said with Windows Server 2008 being released officially tomorrow, Microsoft has made the Group Policy Preferences "client"available. The client is called Group Policy Preference Client Side Extensions. Think of it as the Active Directory Pack back in the proverbial day.
The platforms supposed for Group Policy Preference Client Side Extensions are Windows Xp, Windows Server 2003 and of course Vista.
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