Gpo what is enforced

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Asked by:. Archived Forums. Sign in to vote. Friday, January 11, PM. Saturday, January 12, PM. I have an additional question about this I was trying to use the "enforced" button to make a policy become active but it wasn't seeming to work which is why the search engine found this forum entry How do you force a GPO to be used when someone logs on immediately?

Is there a way to force the GPO into effect? This setting is mostly used when the OU contains users or computers that require different settings than what is applied to the domain level. As shown in the figure below, to configure blocking of GPO inheritance , right-click the OU container and select the Block Inheritance option from the list:.

Figure 2. GPO Block Inheritance. For example, if you apply a GPO to domain and check the Enforced option, then this policy will be enforced to all the child objects in active directory and takes precedence of child GPO objects even if you have configured another similar GPO child object with a different value.

Figure 3. Enforcing a GPO. Back to Windows Server Section. There are a few things to consider when setting Enforced No override. Another feature, although not suggested to use regularly, is the ability to block the inheritance of the standard Group Policy processing down through Active Directory. As has been mentioned many times in this set of articles, the LSDOU precedence is adhered to for Group Policy application and conflict resolution.

The Block Inheritance feature is one that is set on either the domain node or an organizational unit. What the feature does is block all weaker precedence GPOs associated with the level in which the Block Inheritance setting is established.

Of course, if there were more levels of OUs under the second level one, these GPOs would also be effective, just not those that have weaker precedence. You can see how this affects GPOs by looking at Figure 2 and 3. Figure 2 has no Block Inheritance set, whereas Figure 3 has the setting established at the second level OU. Figure 3: Block Inheritance is set at the second level OU. WMI filters are a powerful way to control which objects users or computers receive the settings in a GPO. Of course, you can see where there might be many areas in this process that the WMI filter will make the GPO appear to fail.

Next, if the WMI filter has any syntactical errors, causing the query to fail, the settings in the GPO will also fail to apply. Finally, if the query is designed wrong, or the logic for the success of the WMI query is incorrect, the GPO settings will not apply. In this series of articles we looked at ten different ways that Group Policy might fail, or at least look as if it is failing.

In reality, Group Policy itself rarely fails. I always suggest that going back to the basics and fundamentals of Group Policy will help track down where the core issues are rooted.

Also, I find that core, fundamental configurations cause the majority of problems with Group Policy.