asked on Combining WMI Filter on GPO
Hi,
I'm in a situation where I need to combine 2 WMI filters and need some help.
Situation:
Funtional level 2003 domain with mixed client environment (Windows XP and 7) where we used a WMI filter to determine which GPO needs to be applied on which OS.
The filter used for this:
Now one of our GPO is for folder redirection of the My Documents folder where at one of our sites these folders are split over 2 file servers (because of workload on the servers). the deviation is done by username so all users with a username from A to K are on server1 and from L to Z on server 2.
First I would need a WMI filter that can query if the username is starting with A to K or L to Z and then combine it with the above query to target the correct OS.
Please help.
Special thanks,
Jurian
I'm in a situation where I need to combine 2 WMI filters and need some help.
Situation:
Funtional level 2003 domain with mixed client environment (Windows XP and 7) where we used a WMI filter to determine which GPO needs to be applied on which OS.
The filter used for this:
Select Version, ProductType FROM Win32_OperatingSystem WHERE Version >= "6.1" AND ProductType ="1"
Now one of our GPO is for folder redirection of the My Documents folder where at one of our sites these folders are split over 2 file servers (because of workload on the servers). the deviation is done by username so all users with a username from A to K are on server1 and from L to Z on server 2.
First I would need a WMI filter that can query if the username is starting with A to K or L to Z and then combine it with the above query to target the correct OS.
Please help.
Special thanks,
Jurian
Active DirectoryMicrosoft Server OSWindows 7
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I would also just split the users to 2 OU's if you have the policies created, if you do not want to do that for others reason then create 2 security groups add the group to the permisssions of the policy while removing the default auithenticated users group.
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Thanks for the suggestions made.
Does this mean it is not possible to combine 2 WMI filters in 1?
Does this mean it is not possible to combine 2 WMI filters in 1?
You can chain queries together from different classes:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/askds/archive/2012/02/11/friday-mail-sack-get-off-my-lawn-edition.aspx#wmi
But I would avoid WMI queries if you can, so why not just make two Security Groups, (A and B).
On the Folder Redirection policy, choose: Target -> "Advanced - Specify locations for various user groups".
Group A -> redirect to the A-K file server and Group B > redirect to L-Z file server.
http://blogs.technet.com/b/askds/archive/2012/02/11/friday-mail-sack-get-off-my-lawn-edition.aspx#wmi
But I would avoid WMI queries if you can, so why not just make two Security Groups, (A and B).
On the Folder Redirection policy, choose: Target -> "Advanced - Specify locations for various user groups".
Group A -> redirect to the A-K file server and Group B > redirect to L-Z file server.
samaccountname / display name are not wmi objects but ldap objects