01-24-2024, 05:44 AM
I remember this one time at my old gig. We had a small office setup. Sales team kept getting admin rights they shouldn't have. IT policies from the domain were clashing with local ones on their machines. Turned out, a higher OU was overriding the lower one without us noticing. Spent half a day scratching our heads. Finally traced it back to a forgotten group assignment.
But yeah, to fix these messes, start by checking the order of your OUs. See if inheritance is flowing wrong. You might need to block it at a certain level. Or tweak the precedence in the policy editor. Run a quick gpresult on a test machine. That shows you exactly what's applying. If it's a loop from linked policies, unlink the extras. Sometimes it's just a simple refresh with gpupdate. Covers the basics there. And if replication's off between DCs, force a sync. That clears up a lot.
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