Open GPMC (Group Policy Management Console) from a Vista computer by typing Gpmc.msc in the Run command. In order to disable Local Group Policies processing perform the following steps: In this ebook, you’ll learn why Red Canary’s platform and expertise bring you the highest possible value from your Microsoft Defender for Endpoint investment, deployment, or migration. In these scenarios, the domain admin might fear that since the users are local administrators of their own machines, they might start messing with LGPOs and make changes to the security or registry settings of their machines. This might be useful when the Vista users might also be local administrators for their workstations (although this scenario should be less used as with Windows 2000/XP computers, mostly due to the new security and virtualization capabilities of Vista).
However, in some scenarios, when the Vista computer is a part of an Active Directory domain, the domain administrators might want to configure the workstations not to process any LGPOs at all. You can read more about LGPOs on my Understanding Multiple Local GPOs in Windows Vista and Configure Multiple Local GPOs in Windows Vista articles. This means that whenever you want to configure different settings for different users you can do so easily.
Windows Vista has the ability to create multiple local group policies (GPOs).
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How to disable Local GPO processing in Windows Vista?