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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....
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).
Also, should we stop investing in Group Policy and instead use DSC? What are the intermediate plans for GPO as a technology? It seems that with decentralized computing GPO is less of a player.
DSC is datacenter/server-focused and PowerShell-based, which puts it out of the reach of many IT pros.
For Windows 10 client devices, we see the move from Group Policy to MDM (e.g. Intune) as the direction. Lightweight, scalable, and simple.