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Configuration Policies

For administrative purposes, you can group parameters into configuration policies. These policies can be assigned to computers or groups of computers.

A single computer or group can also be subjected to multiple configuration policies. In that case, the parameter settings defined in one policy may overlap with those defined in another policy. To resolve conflicts, you must comply with the following rules when configuration policies overlap:

• Policies assigned to a group are inherited by the children of the group. A child can be a group or computer.
• In a hierarchy, policies assigned on the child level override the ones on the parent level. This means that all parameters defined on the parent level are also defined for the child, but if a child policy overlaps with a parent policy, the child policy takes precedence.