Group Policy is an infrastructure used by admins to implement specific configurations for users and computers as a part of an organization’s security policies. Collectively, these policies are referred to as Group Policy Objects (GPOs). Group Policies help organizations protect computers against data breaches. While Microsoft equips Windows devices with fairly sophisticated security measures, GPOs add flexibility to organizations for enhancing security for their systems. GPOs are applied at different levels namely local policies, site policies, domain policies, and organizational unit policies. The Group Policy Management tools on Azure AD DS can be used by organizations to administer Group Policy in an Azure AD Domain Services managed domain.<\/p>\n
Using Group Policy, organizations can significantly reduce their overall ownership cost by streamlining their IT security operations. Below are some of the advantages of implementing Azure AD Group Policy.<\/p>\n
Azure AD DS is equipped with pre-defined GPOs for Azure Active Directory Domain Controller (AADDC) Users and AADDC Computers containers. While these pre-existing GPOs help in standardizing environments for users and computers joining the directory, they can also be customized easily helping organizations save several hours wasted on configurations.<\/li>\n
While GPOs already simplify deployments of software, patches, and other updates from the Group Policy Management Console (GPMC), system admins can configure and implement Azure AD Group Policy for an Azure AD DS managed domain.<\/li>\n
The Group Policy Management Editor tool allows admins to customize GPOs for policies and preferences involving the user and computer configurations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
You will need appropriate resources and privileges before implementing the Azure AD Group Policy.<\/p>\n