Mastering Active Directory

Group Policy processing

When evaluating Group Policy requirements for an organization, we can identify some settings that are common for objects in the entire domain. But at the same time, some settings are unique to departments or specific groups. Any Group Policy that is applied at the root level will be inherited by other organization units by default. Therefore, organization units can have inherited group policies as well as directly linked group policies. In that case, which Group Policy will be processed? Will it prevent any group policies? If the same setting is applied to different policies, which one will win? To answer all these questions, it's important to understand how Group Policy processing works.

There are mainly two types ...