Windows 7 / Getting Started

Editing GPOs

After you've created a GPO, you can edit the settings that it contains using one of two methods:

  • From the GUI by using the Group Policy Management Editor, which can be started from the GPMC. This is the only method available for editing GPOs in earlier versions of Windows. Using this method, you can modify any GPO setting, including policy settings, preference items, and security settings.
  • From the command line or via script automation by using the Set-GPRegistryValue, SetGPPrefRegistryValue, Get-GPRegistryValue, Get-GPPrefRegistryValue, Remove-GPRegistryValue, and Remove-GPPrefRegistryValue cmdlets, which are among the new Windows PowerShell Group Policy cmdlets in Windows 7. Using this method, you can modify either policy settings or Group Policy preferences registrybased preference items (you cannot modify other types of preference items using the cmdlets). You cannot use Windows PowerShell to modify security settings, software installation settings, or any other types of GPO settings.
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In this tutorial:

  1. Managing the Desktop Environment
  2. Understanding Group Policy in Windows 7
  3. Group Policy Before Windows Vista
  4. Group Policy in Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008
  5. New Group Policy Features in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2
  6. Group Policy Policy Settings in Windows 7
  7. Understanding ADMX Template Files
  8. Types of ADMX Template Files
  9. Local Storage of ADMX Template Files
  10. Considerations When Working with ADMX Template Files
  11. Understanding Multiple Local Group Policy
  12. MLGPOs and Group Policy Processing
  13. Managing Group Policy
  14. Adding ADMX Templates to the Store
  15. Creating and Managing GPOs
  16. Using Starter GPOs
  17. Creating and Managing GPOs Using the GPMC
  18. Creating and Managing GPOs Using Windows PowerShell
  19. Editing GPOs
  20. Configuring Policy Settings
  21. Configuring Preference Items
  22. Managing MLGPOs
  23. Migrating ADM Templates to ADMX Format
  24. Converting ADM Template Files to ADMX Format
  25. Creating and Editing Custom ADMX Template Files
  26. Configuring Group Policy Processing
  27. Using Advanced Group Policy Management
  28. Troubleshooting Group Policy
  29. Enabling Debug Logging
  30. Using Group Policy Log View
  31. Using GPResult