Not unless Joe Bloggs is in the OU with the computer he won't. Are your
users and computers in the same OUs? I try to keep them separate wherever
possible.

However you should be able to filter by computer in the GPO with loopback
policy processing enabled, as I remember.

On 24 November 2010 11:20, Paul Hutchings <[email protected]> wrote:

> Maybe.. I don’t know!  If I apply the GPO to Joe Bloggs though, Joe will
> get those settings on any PC, when the whole point I only want him to get
> those user settings, when logging on to PC XYZ.
>
>
>
> *From:* James Rankin [mailto:[email protected]]
> *Sent:* 24 November 2010 11:16
> *To:* NT System Admin Issues
> *Subject:* Re: GPO Loopback Processing - What am I missing?
>
>
>
> Shouldn't you apply it to the users you want to receive it, as it is a user
> setting you are deploying (albeit with loopback)?
>
> On 24 November 2010 11:12, Paul Hutchings <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> I have a group of PC’s that I want to have certain user settings,
> regardless of who is logged on.
>
>
>
> So, I setup a GPO with the following settings:
>
>
>
> Computer Configuration/Administrative Templates/System/Group Policy - Merge
>
> User Configuration/Administrative Templates/Control Panel/Personalization -
> Where I've set various options to mandate a screen saver.
>
>
>
> I then applied the GPO to an OU where my sample PC is, and set the policy
> to only apply to that computers account.
>
>
>
> It doesn’t seem to be working in that “gpresult /r” shows the policy as
> being enforced in the computer settings, but the screensaver options are
> totally untouched.
>
>
>
> I think I’ve missed something totally obvious, and I’m ashamed to say I
> can’t see for the life of me what that may be.
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Paul
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