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> GPOs I didn't know what this meant, so I looked it up on DuckDuckGo. The first relevant result was from... a DoD website. https://public.cyber.mil/stigs/gp

• vel0city 5y ago
  They're definitely not something special about the DoD. They're core parts of configuration and policy enforcement on Windows systems. Any organization managing Windows systems will use Group Policy Objects. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_Policy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_Policy
• jabroni_salad 5y ago
  that's just config management for the windows desktop and has been around for ages. They mostly just flip a corresponding registry key and are idempotent, so the impact is minimal aside from the first time policies are processed. The reason that DoD site appears in search is because their STIGs (security technical implementation guides) are a freely available best practice reference for any windows administrator to use. You do not want to apply all of their reccomendations to any computer, but I will say that fully STIG'd computer will actually not take that long to boot up, aside from the first application of the policies. Login performance usually comes down to drive maps, printer maps, and startup programs.