Re: Computer vs. User configuration

OU's may also contain both computer and users or have sub OUs that contain
only computer or only users. Best practice is to design your OU and Group
Policy structure that suits your needs keeping in mind that OUs can be used
for logical organization by managed groups users/computers, geographical
organization, or combination of both and for delegation of authority and
applying Group Policy. There is not stamped in stone correct way. However if
you have a Group Policy that is not meant to apply any settings to a user or
computer then disable that configuration part of the Group Policy. I hope
that was not too confusing. --- Steve


"Bart-man" <Bart-man@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:E37EA7EF-96B2-4F7B-BECF-EC394E8CFAF9@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> In creating Group Policies you can set both User Configuration and
> Computer
> configuration settings. Then, you can apply these gpo's to OU's containing
> either Computers or Users.
>
> Do you always assign GPO's with Computer Configuration settings to OU's
> containing Computers, and assign GPO's with User Configuration Settings to
> OU's containing Users?
>
> It seems that sometimes a GPO setting won't have any effect if, for
> example,
> it is a user configuration setting applied to a Computer OU. What is the
> rule
> of thumb here?


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