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Best Practices for Designing Group Policy
The bottom line with Group Policy is that it’s only as good as your Active Directory design. If you’ve implemented your sites, domains and OUs in the wrong way, Group Policy will be difficult to use and troubleshoot. So the first step in planning how you’re going to implement Group Policy on your network is to plan how you’re going to implement Active Directory itself. Such planning includes decisions like: How many forests you will deploy (one or several)? How many domain trees? Will there be child domains? What kind of OU structure will each domain have? And so on. Each of these decisions should always be made by asking the question: What impact will my decision have on how Group Policy is implemented in my enterprise? Let’s look at some guidelines that can help you design Active Directory effectively as far as Group Policy is concerned. This article summarizes best practices for planning the implementation of Group Policy in an Active Directory environment. Topics covered include designing an OU structure to facilitate management by Group Policy, minimizing use of blocking and enforcement, and more.(continue at source)