"Enforced" a. k. a. "No Override" takes precedence over "Block Policy
Inheritance", see for example 

http://www.windowsitpro.com/Article/ArticleID/15420/15420.html

So the "Enforced" 120 minute overrides the lower 3 minute setting even with
"Block Policy Inheritance" set.  This is true in Windows 2000 and Windows
2003.

-- Michael C. Bazarewsky

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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rimmerman, Russ
Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2005 9:26 AM
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Subject: [ActiveDir] GPO oddity


We have a Default Domain level GPO that is set to "Enforced".  In this
GPO, we set a 120 minute screensaver timeout that locks the screensaver
after 120 minutes.

In a GPO at a lower OU level, we have an OU that has "Block Policy
Inheritence" turned on, and a GPO is linked to that OU that sets the
screensaver timeout to 3 minutes.

For some reason, the users in that OU are getting the default domain GPO
timeout of 120 minutes rather than the 3 minute screensaver timeout. 


I assume if we turn off "Enforced" on the default domain GPO, anyone
that belongs to a Block Policy Inheritence OU will get their lower level
GPO applied rather than the default domain GPO? 


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