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Windows Vista doubles Group Policy's potential

What are Windows administrators getting in terms of changes to Group Policy with Vista?
Danny Kim: [Microsoft] didn't do much with the infrastructure; they ran out of time. But there are a lot of new settings. XP SP2 has between 1,200 and 1,500 settings. In Vista, there are about 3,000. There has been a soft mandate within Microsoft that all product groups should Group Policy-enable their products. And about 80% of the new settings are security related.

What are some of the most important new additions?
Kim: You can manage a user account to make a user a standard user. You can configure for Windows Defender, the new antispyware technology. The thing I like the most is the device insulation control for IT administrators. Microsoft had determined that the bulk of Windows crashes happened because of third-party drivers. Now you can set policy against storage device drivers or PCI drivers. You can gradually control what users have and limit the amount of potential exposure. Windows Vista doubles Group Policy's potential

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