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GPO Removal Question

In our institute we end users that do either administrative functions or work in labs. All of which need the ability to logon with their domain credentials. So we've setup two OU's for those workstations called Admin and Lab. The computers that the admin persons use have 5 group policy objects applying down to them. Contained in those GPO's are hunders of federally mandaded settings. Computes in the LAB ou's CAN NOT have the Federally mandated policies applied to them out of fear these settings will break scientific applicaitons.
So here's my question If a comptuer object is moved into the "Admin" OU, thus inheriting those settings, then moved back into the LAB OU, will those federally mandated policies go back to what they were before?

flyingsky

To answer your question, yes. They should go back to what they were, unless those GPO for Admin group install some software.

esbfern

ASKER

Can you please show me a microsoft document of this. I think this depends on the OS and what policy is applied.

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Shift-3

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flyingsky

One simple way of knowing for sure is do a test. setup a machine in Lab ou, make sure everything works fine, move it to admin ou, force to gpupdate to apply all the GPOs , then take it out and put back to lab.

esbfern

ASKER

It's a little more complicated than that. Just found this http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc736484.aspx

esbfern

ASKER

Shift-3: How do I know which Group Policies will be put in these locations:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies

Are all policies under the administrative templates in these locations?

esbfern

ASKER

Here's the answer for the administrative Templates section of a GPO. Shift-3 is correct http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc736484.aspx