Group policy lets you basically configure anything on any machine in the active directory domain; Installed programs, installed updates, basically any settings, schedules, services, automatically adding (and limiting by users if you want) network devices like printers and storage… It’s pretty powerful, and does way more than just filesystem permissions.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
You absolutely can join Linux machines to AD. You just don’t have the same power that group policy gives you.
Vilian@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
what group policy gives that unix filesystem permissions don’t?, i really don’t know, and i don’t have a windows machine to test :b
Hexarei@programming.dev 5 months ago
Group policy lets you basically configure anything on any machine in the active directory domain; Installed programs, installed updates, basically any settings, schedules, services, automatically adding (and limiting by users if you want) network devices like printers and storage… It’s pretty powerful, and does way more than just filesystem permissions.