You can do a GPO for a user or group.  Remove "authenticated users" and add the 
user or group instead to associations within an OU.

>>> Ben Scott <[email protected]> 8/3/2009 5:26 PM >>>
Hey list,

  To the best of my knowledge, there is no way to create a GPO for a
particular user account.  You can, of course, create a GPO linked to
the OU containing that user account, and then set "permissions" on the
GPO such that only that user has the "Apply Group Policy" permission
for that GPO.  But ultimately, it's still a GPO associated with an OU.

  We have occasional "one-off" GPOs.  They get applied to a single
role account used for automation that needs a logoff script custom to
the application.  (We could detect the user name in a more global
logoff script, I suppose, but that's even less elegant.)

  I was thinking an individual user GPO would be a convenient feature
to have.  It would be somewhat analogous to the "machine local GPO"
that currently exists for computers.  You can edit that GPO by logging
into the computer and running GPEDIT.MSC.  It applies to the local
machine only.  It would be nice if user accounts had something like
like that.  Maybe a "User GPO" button on the "Account" tab or
whatever.

  If someone knows of a better way with existing tools, please feel
free to hit me with a cluebat.

  Anyone know how one would submit this as a suggestion to Microsoft?
Last I went looking, [email protected] had been shut down.  There
was a sort-of replacement at <http://connect.microsoft.com ( 
http://connect.microsoft.com/ )>, but it
was aimed at focus groups and beta tests, and didn't have a mechanism
to provide feedback for stuff Microsoft hadn't thought of yet.  (How
typical.)

-- Ben

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