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Brass Contributor

May 04, 2017

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Management of GPOs between branches?

How does Microsoft recommend managing different or conflicting group policy settings across branches? If you setup internal rings, you may have 2-3 branches across your organizatin at any given time....

Michael Niehaus
May 04, 2017
I assume you are talking about multiple releases, e.g. supporting GPOs that target Windows 10 1511, 1607, and 1703 simultaneously? WMI filters would be an appropriate approach, targeting specific OS builds (e.g. WMI query for Win32_OperatingSystem).

Michael Niehaus

Former Employee

May 04, 2017

I assume you are talking about multiple releases, e.g. supporting GPOs that target Windows 10 1511, 1607, and 1703 simultaneously? WMI filters would be an appropriate approach, targeting specific OS builds (e.g. WMI query for Win32_OperatingSystem).

Daniel Ratliff

Brass Contributor

May 04, 2017

Thanks Michael, that is correct. WMI filters are generally considered last resort or not recommended. Will this process improve in the future?

Michael Niehaus
Former Employee
May 04, 2017
We are trying our best to make policies in new releases "additive" so that they don't affect older releases. With that, you don't need to make them conditional. That's not always worked with existing Windows 10 releases, but we do intend to make that better.