Removing Links and Deleting GPOs
In the GPMC, you can stop using a linked GPO in two ways. You can remove a link to a GPO but not the actual GPO itself, or you can permanently delete the GPO and all links to it.
Removing a Link to a GPO
Removing a link to a GPO stops the site, domain, or OU from using the related policy settings. It doesn’t delete the GPO, however. The GPO remains linked to other sites, domains, or OUs as appropriate. If you remove all links to the GPO from sites, domains, and OUs, the GPO will continue to exist—it will still "live" in the Group Policy Objects container—but its policy settings will have no effect in your enterprise.
To remove a link to a GPO, right-click the GPO link in the container to which it is linked and then ...
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