


The permissions configured for a policy are shown in the Delegation tab of the GPO. Enabled – all GPO settings are applied to the target AD objects (the default value).User configuration settings disabled – the settings from the user configuration section are not applied.Computer configuration settings disabled – the settings only from the computer configuration of your GPO are not applied.All settings disabled – all policy settings are disabled (GPO won’t apply).For example, you can create a GPO WMI filter to apply a policy only to computers with the specific Windows version, to computers in the certain IP subnet, to laptops only, etc. Thus, you can apply a policy to your computers based on some WMI query. You can use special WMI filters in the GPO.

If you are using non-standard GPO security filters, check that there is no explicit prohibition on the use of GPO for target groups (Deny). Also make sure that the group you have added to the Security Filtering has Read and Apply group policy permissions with the Allow option checked in the GPO -> Delegation -> Advanced tab. If you want to change the Security Filtering in order to apply the policy only to the members of the specific security group (or certain users/computers), remove the “Authenticated Users” from the Security Filtering list and make sure that the target object (a user or a computer) has been added to the AD group you need. It means the policy will be applied to all users and PCs within its scope. This group includes all users and computers in the domain. By default, all new GPO objects in the domain have the permissions for the Authenticated Users group enabled. Security Filtering in GPOĬheck the Security Filtering settings in your policy. It means that the target object must be located in the OU the policy is linked to (or in a nested AD container).
