

It must have Read and Apply Group Policy. In order for a GPO to apply, the object (a user or a computer) has to have two GPO permissions. Settings, will apply to any computer in the Domain Sites OU. This GPO, which contains several computer side This GPO is linked to an OU named Domain Sites, applies to Authenticated Users, and doesn’t have a WMI Filter linked to it. The screenshot above recaps the first three common issues. WMI validator to check the status of a WMI filter. This means that if you have a WMIĬhecking a user only setting, you can’t scope your GPO only to computers. However, that WMI filter has to evaluate to True for the object processing the GPO. These filters can dynamically apply GPOs based on a host of factors. By default, a GPO will be scoped to Authenticated Users. Remember that domain users includes all users, domain computers includes all computer, and authenticated users includes both Make sure that the computers or users needing the policy are in a group that is specified here. You can use this PowerShell script to optimize your GPO links and ensure that they are properly linked. Remember, GPOs cannot be linked to an OU that just contains security groups. If the GPOĬonfigures a user side setting, it needs to be linked to the OU containing the correct user. If you are configuring a computer side setting, make sure the GPO is linked to the Organization Unit ( OU) that contains the computer. The first place to check is the Scope Tab on the Group Policy Object ( GPO). The most common issue seen with Group Policy is a setting not being applied. Let’s look at the top ten issues that can stop Group Policy from being applied. If Group Policy is not being applied, we canįix it. But when it doesn’t, Microsoft has provided great guidelines and tools in order to troubleshoot. To setting the default printer, it works. It allows for theĬonfiguration and deployment of pretty much anything in your Active Directory environment. Microsoft has made constant improvements to it since Windows 2000. Group Policy is a solid tool and is very stable.
