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Dishan Francis is an IT professional with over 15 years of experience. He was a six-time Microsoft MVP in enterprise mobility before he joined Microsoft UK as a security consultant. He has maintained the RebelAdmin technology blog over the years, with lots of useful articles that focus on on-premises Active Directory services and Azure Active Directory. He has also written for other Microsoft-managed blogs such as canitpro and ITopsTalk. When it comes to managing innovative identity infrastructure solutions to improve system stability, efficiency, and security, his level of knowledge and experience places him among the very best in the field.
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Group Policy inheritance

Any Group Policy that is applied to the upper level of the structure is inherited in the lower level. The order of the inherited policies is decided by the LSDOU model that we looked at in the Group Policy processing section. Group Policy inheritance for each OU can be reviewed using the Group Policy Management MMC.

To view the inheritance data, first, click on the OU and then click on the Group Policy Inheritance tab:

Figure 10.7: Group Policy Inheritance

The Group Policy inheritance details can also be viewed by using the Get-GPInheritance PowerShell cmdlet. As an example, the same information listed in the preceding screenshot can be viewed using the following command:

Get-GPInheritance -Target "OU=Users,OU=Europe,DC=rebeladmin,DC=com"

In this example, I have one site-linked Group Policy called Site 1. There are two domain-linked group policies called Root 1 and Root 2. I also have an OU-linked Group Policy called Test...

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Dishan Francis is an IT professional with over 15 years of experience. He was a six-time Microsoft MVP in enterprise mobility before he joined Microsoft UK as a security consultant. He has maintained the RebelAdmin technology blog over the years, with lots of useful articles that focus on on-premises Active Directory services and Azure Active Directory. He has also written for other Microsoft-managed blogs such as canitpro and ITopsTalk. When it comes to managing innovative identity infrastructure solutions to improve system stability, efficiency, and security, his level of knowledge and experience places him among the very best in the field.
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