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The content of a GPO is stored in two locations: the Group Policy container (GPC) and the Group Policy template (GPT).

The GPC is an Active Directory object that contains GPO status, version information, WMI filter information, and a list of components that have settings in the GPO. Computers can access the GPC to locate Group Policy templates, and domain controllers can access the GPC to obtain version information. If the domain controller does not have the most recent version of the GPO, replication occurs with the domain controller that has the latest version of the GPO.

The Group Policy template is a folder hierarchy in the shared SYSVOL folder on a domain controller. When you create a GPO, Windows Server 2003 creates the corresponding GPT, which contains all Group Policy settings and information, including administrative templates, security, software installation, scripts, and folder redirection settings. Computers connect to the SYSVOL folder to obtain the settings.

The name of the GPT folder is the globally unique identifier (GUID) of the GPO that you created. It is identical to the GUID that Active Directory uses to identify the GPO in the GPC. The path to the GPT on a domain controller is systemroot\SYSVOL\sysvol.

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