Group policies are an important tool for the central Windows-PC management. nitrobit policy extensions is an add-on for the group policy system and provides new functions within group policy objects. Those functions so far needed self-scripting or manual customization of the user configuration.

With nitrobit policy extensions, group policies can execute the following functions:

• Deployed Printers
  Allows to assign local printers, TCP/IP-printers as well as printers, that are shared through a windows-server to users and computers.
   
  
• Network Drives
  Configures the connection to network-drives for the user.
   
  
• Device Restrictions
  Can restrict users to acces certain devices.
   
  
• Services
  Allows the configuration of Services, e.g. starting and stopping a service during the user log-in.
   
  
• Registry
  Allows the creation of registry keys and values.
   
  

In order to use nitrobit policy extensions, no client setup is needed. With the integrated client management feature, the client component can be deployed fast and easy through a group policy.

nitrobit policy extensions is supported for the following environments:

• Active Directory
  Microsoft Windows Server 2000 and 2003 Active Directory Domains
   
  
• Samba and nitrobit group policy
  Samba 3.x Domains with nitrobit group policy