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Creating and Linking a GPO in Win Server 2008


Creating a group policy object in windows server 2008:
Perform the below steps to create new GPO
Go to start menu -> administrative tools -> group policy management -> Expand forest -> Expand domains -> Expand your domain -> Right click on Group policy objects and select new -> type name for new GPO and click ok to create a new GPO.

Once after creating new GPO you can link it to Entire forest or Domain or OU and sites as well.
To link a GPO to domain, Domain controllers and OU follow the below stepsPerform the below steps to create new GPO
Linking a GPO to Domain:
Go to gpmc.msc -> Expand Forest -> Expand domain and right click on your domain and click on link existing GPO, you will get a window as below, select the appropriate GPO and click on ok to link a gpo.



To link a GPO to domain controller, right click on Domain controllers and select Link existing GPO and select the appropriate GPO and click ok to complete the process.
To link a GPO to OU, right click on OU and select link existing GPO and select the GPO and click ok as shown in above picture.
And follow the same procedure to link a GPO to Site as well.
Note : Please make me clear if anything wrongly mentioned in the above page.

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