How to scope Group Policy with WMI filters
By Timothy Warner | No Comments | PermalinkIn this article you will learn how to create Group Policy Objects (GPOs) by leveraging the power of Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI).
The traditional method for scoping Group Policy Objects (GPOs) in Windows Server 2008 Active Directory is to perform the following actions:
- Ensure that the GPO is linked to the appropriate Active Directory object (for instance, site, domain, OU)
- Use security filtering to ensure that the GPO affects only specified user and/or computer accounts
Security filtering a GPO
What many Windows systems administrators do not know (or may not want to know due to the learning curve involved) is that we can also use Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) filtering to dynamically scope Group Policy.





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