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.
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The policy is applied to the computer. This means that traversal ends at the computer which you want to apply the policy on. |
Using the rules written above, the order in which policies will be applied on individual computers would be as follows:
PC1: |
PC2: |
PC3: |
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1.ALL 2.SG1 3.PC1 |
1.ALL 2.SG1 3.DG1 4.PC2 |
1.ALL 2.SG2 3.SG3 4.PC3 |