why copy the policies into some other place again?

poguy

why copy the policies into some other place again?
in some tutorial I saw the instructor copy the polices directory into another place, why is that?
thank syou

crrussell3

One can only guess that you are refering to Group Policy Central Stores? The main reason for doing this, is that the GPME looks for a Central Store first, then looks local. If you maintain the Central Store with all the current/up to date default/custom adm/admx files, its only one location that needs updating. Otherwise, every workstation that may edit group policy objects would need to have its local files updated whenever a new adm/admx is added or modified.