From the course: Windows Server 2025: Implementing Group Policy

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Group Policy inheritance

Group Policy inheritance

- [Instructor] So we talked about group policy scope. Let's now talk about group policy inheritance. So when we look at this active directory infrastructure in our test domain here, which is hplusports.local, we can see that hplusports.local has the forest. Within the forest, we have the domain. And then within the domain, we have a top level OU, which is HQ-NYC, where we have our contractors, FTE, and device OU, right? So in the top level domain, which is hplusports.local, we have our default domain policy. And then we have linked a new password policy for our HQ, NMOIC, top level OU site. Within that site, we have contractors and FTE. And in the contractors, we have linked the new demo policy. First, let's check our domain here, and we can see that in our domain, we have the default domain policy, right? The scope is the default domain policy. Now, when we go to our organizational unit within the domain, let's go to group policy inheritance. So now, here we have the new password…

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