What are GPO Preferences?

Group Policy Preferences are a heap of new Group Policy settings that were released with Windows Server 2008 that allows IT administrators to pretty much do anything they want to configured computers in an corporate environment. Preferences only require a Windows 2000 Active Directory and they need to be managed from a minimum of Windows Vista/2008 however they can be applied to Windows XP Service Pack 2 (or greater) workstations.