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GPO's All users except administrators

Asked by: tbonehwd

Is there a way to create a GPO that makes the Administrators and the administrators only exempt from all GPO's on the domain?  I understand the Software Restrictions Enforcement but that's a bit confusing because it states all users except local administrators... Does that mean only administrators or anyone in the local administrators group of the local machine?  If the answer to that is anyone in the local administrators group of the local machine then that does not accomplish what I need.  I need for the administrator to be able to logon to any machine regardless of the applied user/machine GPO and be exempt from that GPO.  Is there a way to accomplish this????

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2009-09-22 at 07:47:08ID24751702
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Answers

 

by: ram_keralaPosted on 2009-09-22 at 07:50:47ID: 25393457

In the security tab of Group policy object, select apply policy permission only for the group which is indent for. Always creating group and applying policy is a best practice.
Remember to remove  apply policy , authenticated users , otherwise all users - regardless admin, policy will get applied

 

by: tbonehwdPosted on 2009-09-22 at 07:51:27ID: 25393465

This is a 2003 domain...

 

by: mkline71Posted on 2009-09-22 at 07:53:10ID: 25393498

There is no specific group policy that enables you to make admins exempt from all other policies.

You can use security filtering on the GPOs more on that here

http://adisfun.blogspot.com/2009/04/security-filtering-and-group-policy.html

NOTE  -- read the comments from Rick (great discussion) as I'm going to update that article just for this sort of questions (deny for admins)

Instead of Deny Read and Deny Apply

For the admins just check Deny Apply Group Policy -- continue to let them have the read access.

Thanks

Mike

 

by: tbonehwdPosted on 2009-09-22 at 07:54:55ID: 25393519

The way this "mess" is currently set up is. The GPOs are either tied to the machines or the users and sometimes both.  Does this apply even if the GPO is linked to the computer and not the user?

 

by: tbonehwdPosted on 2009-09-22 at 07:58:27ID: 25393563

Basically that's what I'm doing.  I've applied GPOs to specific users/groups and PC's.  Not everyone.

 

by: mkline71Posted on 2009-09-22 at 07:58:58ID: 25393568

If a GPO is linked to where your computers are it will only affect machines (assuming computer settings are defined in that GPO)

If you want a computer to not receive the settings you can use security filtering for the computer or more the computer to a different OU that doesn't inherit that GPO (if the GPO is linked at the OU level)

Thanks

Mike

 

by: tbonehwdPosted on 2009-09-22 at 08:03:46ID: 25393625

That's what I'm trying to accomplish. I've inherated a mess.  All the GPOs are linked to the Domain with user's and groups in the GPO I'm trying to move everything around to the corresponding OU.  I'm trying to make sure that my administrators  will be able to log into any machine and not have the GPO applied to them.  I working with about 600 plus machines.

 

by: tbonehwdPosted on 2009-09-22 at 08:11:07ID: 25393722

So basically the short answer is, if the administrator is not in the "group" (security filtering) he's exempt..
Unless it's a domain policy with auth.users or everyone?

 

by: ram_keralaPosted on 2009-09-22 at 08:14:54ID: 25393766

If the GPO is meant for only users, create a Group of those users ( in the Properties disable computer object),give read and apply policy permission for that group, Administrators only Write/Read permission, and remove Apply policy.
You can aswell Add Admins in a group to Manage the Group policy
Authenticated users need to removed from Apply policy

 

by: ram_keralaPosted on 2009-09-22 at 08:16:58ID: 25393791

As you told , the state is messed up, best option is Security Filtering, See the MS Articles explain on the same

 http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc781988(WS.10).aspx

 

by: tbonehwdPosted on 2009-09-22 at 08:18:07ID: 25393806

OK I got it thanks everyone for all you help!

 

by: tbonehwdPosted on 2009-09-22 at 08:19:09ID: 31631954

Thanks to all of you..

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