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Active Directory Administration Cookbook
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Active Directory Administration Cookbook

by Sander Berkouwer
May 2019
Intermediate to advanced
620 pages
21h 41m
English
Packt Publishing
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How it works...

Without a link, a GPO is not applied to computer or user objects.

Despite the name Group Policy, GPOs cannot be linked to groups.

When a domain-joined device processes a Group Policy, it processes GPOs in this order:

  • Locally defined Group Policy settings
  • GPOs linked to sites
  • GPOs linked to the domain the device resides in
  • GPOs linked to the OUs in the OU structure down to the device object

When a user logs on, Group Policy is processed in the same order, except this time the domain and OU structure are defined by the location of the user object.

When there are overlapping settings in different GPOs linked in the preceding order, the last processed GPO with the setting wins.

When multiple GPOs are linked to the same OU, the ...

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ISBN: 9781789806984