Group Policy: what's new? Cheat Sheet for all occasions

Microsoft has released an updated file (in Excel format) containing all the group policy settings available for editing and application on client machines.







The column “New in Windows 8.1” appeared in the file on the “Administrative Templates” page.

To get a list of policies for this version of the client OS, you need to apply a filter by the value TRUE.



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On the same page, you can use the "Support On" column to understand - for which versions

OS or IE policy is applied.

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The information about the policies listed in the file covers the following systems:



Client systems

Windows 8.1, Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Vista SP1, Windows XP Professional with SP2 or earlier service packs, Windows 2000 with SP5 or earlier service packs.



Server systems

Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003 with SP2 or earlier service packs



Bonus: Download help file



By the way, the popular group policy search resource Group Policy search tool (GPS) has recently been unavailable.



This post is a translation of an article published on Windows IT Pro.

The original can be found here .