Administrators can configure specific features of how the Network and Sharing Center work in a managed network environment.

Most of the procedures in this section use Group Policy. If you edit policy settings locally on a computer, you will affect the settings on only that one computer. If you configure the settings in a Group Policy object (GPO) hosted in an Active Directory domain, then the settings apply to all computers that are subject to that GPO. For more information about Group Policy in an Active Directory domain, see Group Policy (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=55625).

This section includes the following tasks for administering the Network and Sharing Center:

• Configure Network Connection Restrictions by Using Group Policy
  
• Use the Network Configuration Operators Group
  
• Configuring the Network Map
  
• Enable or Disable Internet Connection Sharing by Using Group Policy
  
• Enable or Disable the Network Bridge by Using Group Policy
  
• Enable or Disable File Sharing for a User or Group by Using Group Policy
  

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