Comments on: Filtering Group Policy to Windows 7 Computers

By: Cjwdev

Cjwdev — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 13:18:17 +0000

Thanks for posting this, we are just starting to roll out Windows 7 and it was a pain adding each Windows 7 user to an AD group just so that the Windows 7 GPOs would only apply to them.

By: an3k

an3k — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 09:54:41 +0000

Windows XP is "5.1%", Windows Server 2003 is "5.2%" !

see http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc754488(WS.10).aspx

By: Moo-Crumpus

Moo-Crumpus — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 13:56:30 +0000

select * is much more 'expensive' then select version, producttype. you should prefer

SELECT Version, ProductType.

By: Aakash Shah

Aakash Shah — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 19:04:56 +0000

I'm curious, is it more efficient to say:

SELECT Version, ProductType from Win32_OperatingSystem Where Version like “6.1%” and ProductType = “1”

instead of

SELECT * from Win32_OperatingSystem Where Version like “6.1%” and ProductType = “1”

Or, are they both pretty much the same in terms of delay?

Thanks.

By: Chaoren

Chaoren — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 17:50:46 +0000

Hi excellent post there. keep it up.I frankly like to read your blog.Last of all have good day

By: Tom Basham

Tom Basham — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 11:31:15 +0000

Hi Ben,
That would certainly work, though all your user configuration would then be applied via the computer objects, to some extent you'd lose the benefits of being able to use and filter user based policy. Using the WMI filters you can still have different XP and 7 policies but have the user accounts in the same OU.

By: Ben

Ben — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 08:50:58 +0000

Just wanted to let you know I read your post and that I appreciate the time you took to write it up. An idea I was thinking about to accomplish the same thing was using loopback policy processing and linking the user policies to an OU I've got setup for my Win7 machines. Just wondering what you thought and if you'd already tried this in your travels?