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Mastering Windows Group Policy
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Mastering Windows Group Policy

by Jordan Krause
November 2018
Beginner
408 pages
10h 22m
English
Packt Publishing
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Multiple GPOs linked at the same level

Taking this link precedence discussion one step further, what do you suppose happens when there are multiple GPOs linked to the same tier, but that contain conflicting settings? One of them must win, but how do we determine which settings are going to end up on our devices? GPMC can once again come to the rescue and clue us in as to what is happening under the hood. Let's say that I were to link both of my desktop wallpaper GPOs to the same place. I will link both of them to the Accounting OU. Now I have two GPOs that are both trying to modify the same setting on my workstation, and they are both linked at the same level. Which one has priority?

Inside GPMC, I am going to click on the Accounting OU. ...

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