Group Policy Management Console, used to create, link, back up and model Group Policy Objects throughout a forest.
Also called Group Policy Management Console.
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Terms in this definition
- CRUD
Shorthand for create, read, update and delete, the four basic things you do with data. Data-plane roles in Azure Cosmos DB, for instance, authorise those operations on items.
- Exclusions
Scopes taken out of a policy assignment; they can only narrow its coverage, never widen it.
- Forest
The highest-level AD container and security boundary. Its domain trees, one or more, all use one schema, configuration and global catalog.
Related terms
- Migration table
When copying or importing policies into another forest or domain, this GPMC file swaps the referenced users, groups, computers and UNC paths for replacement values.
- Starter GPO
A saved collection of Administrative Template settings, kept in GPMC, that you can use as the basis when making new GPOs.