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I have a similar situation. What I do is put those computers and users in a
seperate OU and configure the policy in that OU. Not perfect but close
enough for my situation since the users and computers in question are all at
a remote site.
Mike Ober.
"Bruce Sanderson" <bsanders@junk.junk> wrote in message
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> Computer Configuration settings are completely independent of Users. The
> settings are applied to the computer. What user actually logs on at the
> computer makes no difference whatsoever.
>
> There is no fixed relationship between users and computers - a user is
> associated with a particular computer only while they are actually logged
> on.
>
> You will have to know which computers you want the WUS settings applied to
> and put them in an OU to which you link the corresponding GPO. Managing
the
> inventory (which computers are in which department and thus which OU) is
> essential to managing computers via GPO.
>
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> It is perfectly useless to know the right answer to the wrong question.
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> "Brian Nielsen" <brian.heilmann@sletmig_wuerth.dk> wrote in message
> news:OPwjNNRXFHA.160@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
> > Hi,
> >
> > I want to configure WUS (Windows Update Services) to push out updates to
> > specific departments. But I don't know which computers are in which
> > departments because they are renewed pretty often. But I know which
users
> > who works in which departments. Therefore I want to push out the WUS
> > policy - which is a computer policy - to these users.
> >
> > I have tried to apply the policy to the OU in which all my workstations
> > resides. I have then defined the security to a specific usergroup. I
think
> > this should work but it does not seem to work
> >
> > Hope this helps.
> >
> > Best Regards
> >
> > Brian
> >
> > "lforbes" <UseLinkToEmail@WindowsForumz.com> skrev i en meddelelse
> > news:3_1218026_f751c9924321c0e585ec311b06020e8d@windowsforumz.com...
> >> "Brian Nielsen" wrote:
> >> > Hi,
> >> >
> >> > I am interested in applying computer GPOs to specific users. I
> >> > don't know
> >> > which computers the users are connecting with - I only know
> >> > which users. I
> >> > have tried creating a GPO but it does not seem to apply. I
> >> > have read about
> >> > the Loopback Policy Processing, but it seems you could only
> >> > use this when
> >> > you wan't a user policy to apply to a computer and not the
> >> > opposite:
> >> >
> >> > I hope someone can help me out.
> >> >
> >> > Best Regards
> >> >
> >> > Brian
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> You cannot apply Computer GPO's to specific users. You can apply the
> >> "User-Config" of a Computer GPO's to ALL users who login to that
> >> specific computer using the Loopback Policy Processing.
> >>
> >> What is it you are trying to do? What settings do you need to apply
> >> to specific users? Why not use just a Users GPO?
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >>
> >> Lara
> >>
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