Microsoft Azure, codenamed “Project Red Dog” and formerly Windows Azure is a cloud computing service created by Microsoft on February 1, 2010 for building, testing, deploying, and managing applications and services through Microsoft-managed data centres.

Group Policy, a feature found in Microsoft Windows NT family of operating systems is deployed to control the working environment of user accounts and computer accounts. This feature provides centralized management and configuration of operating systems, applications and user settings on Active Directory environments.