Who can use Group Policy?

Any IT administrator who is working within a Microsoft domain environment, or those who are building networks from the ground up can use Group Policy. It benefits everyone involved—the IT administrator as well as the end users. AD and domain administrators will interact with the Group Policy Management Console on a regular basis to establish settings and design the rollout process for those settings to get to their respective users and computers. End users benefit from Group Policy by having preconfigured workstations that they know to be company-appropriate and, most importantly, secure. In fact, in my eyes, the ability to place security settings and requirements on to users and computers is the single biggest reason that every company should be utilizing Group Policy. We will, of course, spend some time securing your devices within this book.