This week Chapter 6 of my book The Definitive Guide to Building a Windows Server 2008 Infrastructure was released. You can get it as a free download from here: http://www.tricerat.com/ebooks/index.php.

This chapter is all about Group Policy, and goes into detail not only about the basics of Group Policy but also the new features you get with the upgrade to Windows Server 2008. One of the very best new features, Group Policy Preferences, is discussed in detail. If you're still using logon scripts to handle desktop configuration for those things traditional Group Policy just won't do, you need to read this chapter.

GPPs give you amazing power to manage virtually every part of your desktop and server configurations -- even down to mapping individual drive letters and manipulating specific registry keys. Big wow.