Windows Server® 2012 Unleashed

Configuring Preference Item-Level Targeting

There are many instances in Group Policy deployments when an administrator desires to apply a particular preference setting to only a subset of computers or users. When this is the case, preference item-level targeting can be used. For example, a Group Policy administrator can create a single domain policy named UserDriveMapGPO and leave the policy filtering set to authenticated users, and it can be linked to the domain. In this case, if a drive map preference is defined, all users in the domain will map the same drive. Now within this single policy several drive maps can be created, but each drive map can be applied to only specified users or security groups using item-level targeting with the drive ...