Local Policy

We already discussed Local Group Policy and using gpedit.msc to reference these settings. This is the Local Policy of a computer, and any settings that are plugged into Local Policy will process first when Windows starts. These settings affect the entire computer—it doesn't matter which users are logged in. It is very rare that companies would make use of Local Policy to push any settings, because it means that you would be manually touching each workstation to put these settings into place. That's not very time-friendly. What is most important to understand about Local Policy is that your settings that are plugged in at the local policy level may not always be in effect. Since Local Policy is first to apply, it means that any levels of the Active Directory Group Policy that we are about to cover in a minute will take priority over Local Policy. In other words, your computer might put your Local Policy settings into place, but milliseconds later during the boot process, those settings could be overwritten by AD policy settings.