1.3.2 Protocol Operational Modes

The Group Policy: Core Protocol has two primary modes of operation: policy application and policy administration.

• In policy application driven by the Group Policy client, the client retrieves administrator-specified behaviors from the Group Policy server.

• In policy administration driven by the administrator, administrator-operated tools on a remote computer can be used to modify the behavioral specifications (or policies) that the Group Policy server returns when the client performs policy application.