From the course: Windows Server 2025: Implementing Group Policy

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Domain-based Group Policy Objects

Domain-based Group Policy Objects

- [Instructor] Let's talk about domain-based group policy object. So we are again in the Group Policy Management console. In this Group Policy Management console, you are seeing that we have a forest called hplusport.local. And the root domain here is hplusport.local. And within the root domain, if we expand that, we see the default domain policy. In order to actually configure a domain or install a domain, what we have to do first is have a domain controller. And when we create a domain controller, we also have a default domain controller policy. So by default, when you create a domain, you get two default policies. One is the default domain policy, and another one will be the default domain controller policy. As you create more domains, for each domain, you will have a default domain policy. And since each domain has its own domain controller, you'll also get default domain controller policy. Now, keep in mind, even though each domain also has sites, you do not get any default site…

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