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http://blogs.technet.com/askds/archive/2008/03/25/remote-server-administration-tools-released-for-windows-vista-sp1-hurray.aspx

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Brief Description
The GPOAccelerator creates all the Group Policy objects (GPOs) that you need to deploy recommended security settings for your environment to save you hours of work that you would otherwise need to configure these settings. This Solution Accelerator includes guidance to assist you with this tool.
Overview
The download for GPOAccelerator includes the following components:

GPOAccelerator. The [...]

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Overview
Multiple Group Policy Preferences have been added to the Windows Server 2008 Group Policy Management Console (which are also available through the Remote Server Administration Toolset (RSAT) for Windows Vista SP1). Group Policy Preferences enable information technology professionals to configure, deploy, and manage operating system and application settings they previously were not able to manage [...]

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If you are planning on deploying server 2008 and manage group policies for your company you’ll want to check out this new download from MS.

Planning and Deploying Group Policy v1.0

Here is also a great post on some of the highlights from the new Planning and Deploying Group Policy download.

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Steve Riley elaborates on some of the new security features in Vista that eliminate the need for the "power users" security group.  In fact, "power users" in Vista is there only for backwards compatibility.
Excerpt:
"I’ve seen some conversations lately about the Power Users group — how powerful is it, really, and why did we remove [...]

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