Exercise of creating and applying a starter GPO Group Policy Management
In effect, a starter GPO forms a base for Group Policy objects to be created that by default have all the settings of the originating starter GPO. It’s quick, it’s convenient, and it can save a lot of time if you have to create a lot of similar GPOs in your environment.
1. Open the Group Policy Management Console by selecting Administrative Tools Group Policy Management.
2. Select Starter GPOs in the GPMC. You may see an option that says Create Starter GPOs Folder. If you do, click it.
3. In the right pane, right-click Starter GPO, and select New. The New Starter GPO dialog box opens.
4. Name the GPO base GPO.
5. Click OK.
6. Right-click Base GPO, and select Edit
7. Expand the Administrative Template: Policy De?nition (ADMX Files) mcitp certificate retrieved from the local machine under User Configuration.
8. Select Control Panel Add or Remove Programs
9. Double-click Hide Add New Programs Page, which opens the dialog box shown here.
10. Choose Enabled.
11. Exit the dialog box.
12. In the GPMC, right-click Base GPO, and select New GPO from Starter GPO.
13. Name it PolicyFrombase. You will notice that by default the source starter GPO is based on the Base GPO starter GPO.
14. Click OK.
15. PolicyFromBase will appear in your Group Policy Objects folder. Select PolicyFromBase, and then select the Settings tab.
16. You will notice that if you expand the PolicyFromBase Show button under Policies and then select Control Panel Add or Remove Programs, the Hide Add New Pro- grams setting has been enabled.
Now any additional edits that are made to this Group Policy object will take place mcitp certifications on top of your preexisting settings that you’ve gathered from the starter GPO you created!
Before Windows Server 2008, a big problem that multiple administrators would come across is that one person would create a GPO but nobody else would know what it did at first glance. You had to open the GPMC, look at the settings of the Group Policy object, and then ?gure out for yourself exactly what those settings meant based on the Configuration.
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