From the course: Windows Server 2016: Implementing Group Policy

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Security and WMI filtering

Security and WMI filtering

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Security and WMI filtering

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- [Instructor] One aspect of group policy management that many administrators find to be a bit tricky is getting the group policy object settings to apply to exactly the users and computers that you want them to. And we know we have our default order of application inheritance, we have our LSDOU as far as that goes, and we also have block inheritance and enforced to help us out, but sometimes that's just not enough to get the job done. So there's a couple of extra filters that are available called security filtering and WMI filtering, which can sometimes help you narrow down who and what exactly you're applying these settings to. Now to look at these filters we need to jump over to our domain controller, DC-1. Here in the Server Manager let's go up to the Tools menu, and then select Group Policy Management. Here in Group Policy Management what I want to do is I'm going to expand my Domains down and I'm going to expand the Chicago container where I have a GPO that's already been…

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