When you are configuring policies you will find occasions when your policy
contains only User Configuration settings or contains only Computer Configurations
settings, but not both. In these cases it is a best practice recommendation to disable
the unused portion of the policy. The benefit of doing so is that downloads will not
take place unnecessarily. Normally a computer will download all GPOs applied to it
in the Active Directory. The machine isn’t aware of how many settings exist in the
policy until it actually gets to the GPT and pulls the files and applies them. If the GPT ...
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