Group Policies are used to centrally configure settings for computers and users in Windows. If your computers are joined to a Windows domain, you can use domain GPOs to bring all the computers within an Active Directory domain into a single configuration. If you do not have a domain, you can use the local Group Policy to configure the settings for a single computer (the local Group Policy Editor is started with the gpedit.msc command). In this article, we’ll show you how to back up a local GPO and copy the local policy settings to other computers.
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