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 specific departments or 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.

If multiple group policies are applying to an organization unit, in which order will it be processed? Will it prevent the processing of any Group Policy? If the same setting is applied to different policies, which one will be applied? To answer all of these questions, it's important ...

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