GPOs and Filtering

[TechCarnivore]

I have a few GPOs being filtered out. This is not intentional. When I perform a GPResult the output states that certain Policies were not applied because they were filtered out. Specifically it's says

Group Policy Object
Filtering: Not Applied (Empty)

What does this mean? How do I go about fixing this so that the policy applies itself to the users associated with the OU?

Thanks

 

[dotobi]

If the Group Policy object contains "Computer Comfiguration" settings, make sure it exists in the "My Business>Computers>SBSComputers" OU.

If the Group Policy object contains "User Configuration Settings", make sure it exists in the "My Business>Users" OU.

If it contains both, then you'll have to split it into to GPOs and put the computer & user ones in the relative OUs.

hope this helps

 

[TechSoEasyMVP]

That's a very normal output for SBS's default GPOs.

GPOs have two main parts, computer settings and user settings. Generally only one of those has any configured items, and the default is to apply the GPO to both Computers and Users. So, whichever half doesn't have any configured items will show up as (Empty).

If you look on your GPResult output you'll see both sections and you'll also see that the GPO had settings applied to whichever one didn't have the text you posted above.

Jeff
TechSoEasy