Group Policy Service

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The Group Policy infrastructure is improved with complete isolation from Winlogon, delivering a new architecture for how Group Policy performs notification and processing. The new Group Policy service provides better reliability for Windows and Group Policy, and includes these additional benefits:

  • Microsoft can deliver new Group Policy files, which can be updated without requiring a restart of the operating system.
  • The application of policy is more efficient because of the reduction of resources used for background processing.
  • A performance increase and a reduction in memory usage are results of the new design. These changes eliminate the need to load Group Policy functionality in multiple services.