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The Group Policy Container (GPC) is the portion of a GPO stored in Active Directory that resides on each domain controller in the domain. The GPC is responsible for keeping references to Client Side Extensions (CSEs), the path to the GPT, paths to software installation packages, and other referential aspects of the GPO.

GPMC- group policy management console
GPT- group policy template

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