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Using a security group to deny access to default domain policy

I have automatic updates configured in our default domain policy and i'd like to exclude our production servers from it. I set up a security group and added all the computer accounts for the servers I want excluded. Then I added that security group to the group policy and checked deny apply policy. When I doa gpupdate and gpresult it still shows that it's applying the default domain policy. on the other hand, if I add just a single machine account to the ACL of the default domain policy and check the deny apply group policy it works as expected. when I run gpresult it shows that it's been blocked by the ACL.

Why won't this work with a security group containing the machine accounts?

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shanna1017

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I'm not trying to apply a group policy to a security group, I'm trying to filter based on a security group. I thought that was allowed.

I will give your suggestion a try.

Jay_Jay70

Hi shanna1017,

you can use security filtering based on security groups as long as the groups is under the same OU

http://www.windowsnetworking.com/articles_tutorials/Group-Policy-Security-Filtering.html
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/filter.mspx?mfr=true

Cheers!