exclude users from GPO

Glenn Maxwell 10,146 Reputation points
2023-01-05T21:25:59.013+00:00

Hi All

i have a user based group policy applied on a Top Level OU, with in this OU i have 50 plus Sub OUs. I have 3000 plus users getting this Group Policy and they are spread across this 50 OUs. i have 10 users i dont want this Group policy to be applied on them. I would like to create an AD group and add these 10 users and how can i make sure this GPO is not applied on this AD group. I dont want any impact on rest of 2990 users. please guide me.

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  1. Thameur-BOURBITA 32,506 Reputation points
    2023-01-05T23:17:36.96+00:00

    Hi,

    You can use GPMC to prevent applying this GPO on this group of user. I invite you to follow the procedure mentioned in the link below:

    assign-security-group-filters-to-the-gpo

    Please don't forget to mark helpful reply as answer

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  1. Limitless Technology 43,931 Reputation points
    2023-01-06T14:04:11.777+00:00

    Hello

    Thank you for your question and reaching out. I can understand you are having query\issues related to

    You can Deny using Security filtering or using Deny access to GPO to prevent being appling.

    https://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/4617.security-filtering-using-gpmc.aspx

    https://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/4606.exclusion-for-a-group-policy-object.aspx

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