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How to I apply the Computer Configuration portion of a Group Policy to only certain computers within an OU?

Asked by ljwoods in Active Directory, Windows Networking, Windows 2003 Server

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My GPOs are arranged like this (bear with me, hard to recreate hierarchy with text, * denotes level, several OUs omitted that do not include GPOs):

Domain
Domain GPO - Computer and User Configurations - Authenticated Users
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*OU - Main
*GPO - User Configurations - User Security Group
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**OU - Systems
**GPO - Loopback Enabled (Replace) - Computer Security Group (only 3 computers)
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***OU - Special Systems
***GPO - User Configurations - Authenticated Users (replaces previous conflicting user configuration for only the computers referenced in the Loopback policy)

I hope thats clear enough...  I am looking to create a GPO at the "Systems" OU level (alongside the Loopback GPO that is currently there) that only applies to a certain group of computers.  The policy only includes computer configurations, not user configurations (there are no users in the "Systems" OU).  If I leave the default security filtering at "Authenticated Users," it obviously applies to everyone that logs into any of the computers within that OU.  If I take out "Authenticated Users" and replace it with "Group of Computers," it does not apply the computer configuration setting to those computers.  The configuration settings in the policy do not conflict with any other policy setting in the domain.

How do I go about accomplishing this without changing the structures of my OUs?

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