Ordering Groups

Policies can be assigned to groups, and are applied in a specific order. Rules written below determine in which order policies are applied to clients.

Rule 1: Static Groups are traversed from the root Static Group (All).

Rule 2: On every level, the Static Groups of that level are traversed first in the order they appear in the tree (this is also called "breadth-first" search).

Rule 3: After all Static Groups at a certain level are accounted for, Dynamic Groups are traversed.

Rule 4: In every Dynamic Group, all its children are traversed in the order that they appear in the list.

Rule 5: Traversal ends at a computer.

Using the rules written above, the order in which policies will be applied on individual computers would be as follows: