A user interface is disclosed for representing group policy object
topology and relationships, while allowing interaction to facilitate
group policy management. Forests, sites and domains are hierarchically
displayed in a treeview that reflects the network topology. The treeview
also represents group policy objects, links, filters and other nodes.
Administrators perform operations across forests, domains and sites, and
perform operations on other nodes in the treeview. Administrators control
which forests, sites and domains are viewable in the treeview, and the
treeview state is persisted. Logic automatically reduces the topology's
complexity by limiting the presentation of forests and/or domains to only
those with which the administrator's forest and domain have a proper
trust relationship. Also provided is a tabbed view in a result pane area
that provides a rich display of complex data, and intelligent refresh
logic to update changes in one user interface area to other user
interface areas.