Where is loopback processing mode

Hopefully this helps others understand this powerful, yet often confusing feature of Group Policy: Its a complex topic for many including me! Hope that helps! Aaron on January 7, at am. Lee on June 27, at am. Darren Mar-Elia on June 27, at am. Darren Reply. JoH on November 11, at am. Ed on November 17, at am. Jean on May 4, at pm. Submit a Comment Cancel reply Your email address will not be published.

So we recommend you to configure policy settings based on the organizational unit in which the user account resides. When a computer object resides in a specific organizational unit, the user settings of a policy should be applied based on the location of the computer object instead of the user object. You cannot filter the user settings that are applied by denying or removing the AGP and Read rights from the computer object specified for the loopback policy.

Normal user Group Policy processing specifies that computers located in their organizational unit have the GPOs applied in order during computer startup. Users in their organizational unit have GPOs applied in order during logon, regardless of which computer they log on to. This processing order may not be appropriate in some cases. For example, when you don't want applications that have been assigned or published to the users in their organizational unit to be installed when the user is logged on to a computer in a specific organizational unit.

With the Group Policy loopback support feature, you can specify two other ways to retrieve the list of GPOs for any user of the computers in this specific organizational unit:. In this example, the list of GPOs for the computer is added to the user's list. In this mode, the user's list of GPOs isn't gathered. Only the list of GPOs based on the computer object is used. Feedback will be sent to Microsoft: By pressing the submit button, your feedback will be used to improve Microsoft products and services.

Merge mode is explained below. That is, the computer configuration based on where the computer account is located in Active Directory and user configuration based on where the user account is located in Active Directory is applied. The difference is that an extra step is added. The extra step applies user configuration based on where the computer account is located in Active Directory.

This is often used for Remote Desktop Services where you want the user to have their user settings applied, but want the option to override or add additional settings as required. Home lab Video Index.