Managed versus unmanaged policies

There is an important distinction that every Group Policy administrator needs to understand about policies. There are two different types of policies, and they behave very differently. You can think of the two types as managed versus unmanaged, and also as policy versus preference. The word preference in this case is not necessarily the same distinction between the lumping of policy settings being separated from Group Policy Preference settings inside the Group Policy Management Editor. Those preferences we will be discussing in Chapter 6, Group Policy Preferences. In this sense, I am talking only about settings that exist in the traditional Policy locations inside GPME, namely inside the Administrative Templates section, but they are settings that behave more as if they are preferences in the user's eyes. On the flip side, policies are more...