Working with Group Policies

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Hello,

I just finished watching both working with active directory and working with group policies. One thing that wasn't mentioned in the video that was mentioned in other tutorials I've read was configuring the policies into a 'central store' .

Can you please give me some pro's and con's as to why I would want to configure a 'central store' versus how it was explained in the videos.

Thanks

You will find the information you are looking for in the Administrative Templates episode of Working with Group Policy. In this episode, we talk about the benefits as well as demonstrate how to set up a central store.

The pro's are having a single copy of the administrative templates that are replicated to all domain controllers. So any new or changed administrative templates will be available to all domain controllers. This solves the two big problems we had in the past. No more bloat issue, since they aren't stored in each GPO, and no more version issue, since they are replicated across the domain.

I cannot think of any con's. They are replicated with Active Directory, but the templates are very small (file size), I can't imaging this impacting replication performance.

I would totally agree with the above, especially once you have a larger organization. Trust me, once you're in a position where you've got about 50 domain controllers spread among multiple domains and forests, you don't want to manually do that on every one when you can just put it on one DC in each domain and it will replicate as Mike mentions above. :+1:

I was just looking for some clarification. I guess I missed that part in the video.

thanks