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Addressed some of the nodes of the current equipment, as well as multi-functional group policy. Starting with this article, you can learn about how to manage security settings on your computer, as well as in a domain environment. Nowadays, security is an integral part of work for both system administrators in large and even small businesses and home users, faced with the task of setting up the computer. Inexperienced administrators and home users may find that after installing antivirus and firewall their operating systems are protected, but it’s not quite true.

Of course, these computers will be protected from many attacks, but what can save them from the human factor? Now the possibility of operating systems, security is very high. There are thousands of security settings that provide services, network security, limiting access to certain keys and registry entries, manage the data recovery agent disk encryption BitLocker, control access to applications and much more.

Due to the large number of security settings in the Windows Server, you can not configure all computers using the same set of parameters. In “Group Policy settings User Account Control” were the methods of tweaking the UAC of Windows, and it is only a small part of what you can do with security policies. In a series of articles on local security policies I will try to review as much as possible security arrangements with examples that can help you in further work.