In Windows Active Directory, what are Group Policy Objects?

In Windows Active Directory, what are Group Policy Objects?

• Settings that define what a system should look like and how it will behave
• They determine the hierarchy of a domain, which can fit the operational structure of an organization
• A set of folder rules that determine where Outlook will save email messages
• Affords the capability for secure extension of network operations to the Web 

 

EXPLANATION

Group Policy, in part, controls what users can and cannot do on a computer system: for example, to enforce a password complexity policy that prevents users from choosing an overly simple password, to allow or prevent unidentified users from remote computers to connect to a network share, to block access to the Windows Task Manager or to restrict access to certain folders. A set of such configurations is called a Group Policy Object (GPO)
See: http://searchwindowsserver.techtarget.com/definition/Group-Policy-Object