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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).
So far I never run in issues using always the latest admx for the Windows 10 GPOs. If the feature doesn't exist in an older release, the registry value created by the GPO will not harm anything.
But we branded our internal rings in a private WMI class, so we have different GPOs for Internal Insider, Early Adopters and General Availability. So we can activate features in the different rings.