Filter the View Provided by Administrative Templates
Applies To: Windows Server 2008
To filter the view provided by Administrative Templates
Open the Local Group Policy Editor.
In the console tree, click Administrative Templates, or click a folder under Administrative Templates that contains the policy settings that you want to filter.
On the View menu, click Filtering.
Select the Filter by Requirements information check box.
In the list box, select the check boxes for the categories you want to make visible.
To hide settings that are not configured, select the Only show configured policy settings check box. If you do this, only enabled or disabled settings will be visible.
To hide preference policy settings, select the Only show policy settings that can be fully managed check box. This option is recommended, and it is selected by default. (Values for preference policy settings are set by the user or by the operating system at installation time. The registry values that store preferences are located outside the approved Group Policy registry key locations. Users can typically change their preferences at any time.)
Additional considerations
To complete this procedure, you must have Edit setting permission to edit a GPO. By default, members of the Domain Administrators security group, the Enterprise Administrators security group, or the Group Policy Creator Owners security group have Edit setting permission to edit a GPO.
This filtering procedure is useful if there are too many Administrative Templates settings at one time in the Local Group Policy Editor. This filtering determines which settings are visible in the console. Filtering does not affect whether the settings apply to users or computers, and it is not the same as filtering the scope of Group Policy according to security group membership.
These filter settings are not saved when you close the Local Group Policy Editor.