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greater flexibility in changing the Active Directory structure after it is deployed. Design decisions

are now reversible, which benefits organizations that merge or restructure departments.

• Schema redefinition. The flexibility of Active Directory has been enhanced to allow the

deactivation of attributes and class definitions in the Active Directory schema. Attributes and

classes can be redefined if an error was made in the original definition.

Improved Management with Group Policy

Organizations still using Windows NT 4.0 can significantly lower costs by taking advantage of the

efficiencies enabled by Group Policy and Active Directory. Although Windows NT 4.0 provided

rudimentary tools to set policies, they were set on a server-by-server basis and hard to administer.

With Group Policy in Windows Server 2003, policies can be set for desktop and servers and then

automatically applied to as many desktops and servers as necessary with Active Directory. As

Figure 22 shows, through Active Directory and Group Policy, administrators can apply policy-

based management to enable one-to-many management of users and computers throughout the

enterprise and automate enforcement of IT policies.

Figure 22.

Group Policy enables one-to-many management of users and computers throughout an

organization

Group Policy in Windows Server 2003 provides benefits in the following areas:

• Enhanced security. Administrators can easily define and automatically enforce software security

policies.

• Improved customer satisfaction and reduced Help Desk costs. Administrators can enforce

standardized desktop and server environments. This capability decreases the risk of broken

software configurations and user error, while improving an IT organization’s ability to troubleshoot

problems.

• Increased data safety and availability. Administrators can provide automated folder redirection,

data backup, and data recovery by using Group Policy.

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