Mark, If you need to limit the scope of a GPO for just a few users/computers and don't want to create a new OU, you should just be able to use security filtering and deny the "Apply Group Policy" permission for the specific user/computer. However, that depends on what you're attempting to do with your GPO. What types of settings do you want to prevent from getting applied? Computer, user, or both? Knowing that would help in finding the most effective solution to your problem. //signed// Jamie R Nelson Systems Engineer / Analyst Ingenium Corporation OC-ALC/ITMA 405.739.2811 (DSN 339) _____ From: gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Darren Mar-Elia Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2006 5:27 PM To: gptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [gptalk] Re: GPO WMI Script filters - can it exclude users? Mark- I think the Win32_UserAccount class enumerates user accounts defined on the system where the query runs. So, instead of getting the currently logged on user with that query, you are really asking it if there is a user with the manager's user name defined on that workstation's local SAM where the query runs. I think what you need instead is: Select * FROM Win32_ComputerSystem WHERE UserName <> "domainName\UserName" So its looking for the NetBIOS form of the user name. Also, this is a good opportunity for me to plug my newest free tool--the WMI Filter Validator--which lets you validate a WMI Filter against a machine without having to wait for a GP refresh to see if it will evaluate to true. Darren _____ From: gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mills, Mark Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2006 2:37 PM To: gptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [gptalk] GPO WMI Script filters - can it exclude users? I may be going about this the wrong way. I'm getting the feeling that the WMI filter tool provided only allows you to select what objects you want to include and the filter was not meant to perform "exclude" actions? My situation: I want to make sure a GPO doesn't get applied to a user (a dept manager) in Group Policy. I could make his own OU but for the purposes of me learning WMI filtering lets not consider that an option.(plus it is a poor and silly idea to create a ou for a single user object/person) I am able to filter the GPO in question by using a WMI filter that states - "apply this GPO if this computername does not equal the manager's computer name" by using the following WMI syntax filter: "SELECT * FROM Win32_ComputerSystem WHERE Name <> 'theMgr'sPCname' * note- according to the documentation I read the " <> " represents "not equal to" in WQL/WMI scripting. However, this Dept Mananger is likely to log onto more than one PC, so I wanted to make the WMI filter state "apply this GPO if this users logon name does not equal this Dept Mgr's domain logon name" but the following did not seem to work after a gpupdate /force, reboot: SELECT * FROM Win32_UserAccount WHERE Name <> 'The Mgr'sLogonName' (where 'The Mgr'sLogonName' was tried as <FirstInitialLastName> and <FirstInitialLastName.ourdomain.com> and FirstInitialLastName@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:FirstInitialLastName@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> ) Help.....what am I doing wrong? For those who are not aware of it this is a great tool: WMI Code Creator v1.0 <http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=2CC30A64-EA15-4661 -8DA4-55BBC145C30E&displaylang=en> http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...&displaylang=en Mark Mills, Sr. Network Engineer