Item level targeting is a feature that allows group policy preferences settings to apply to computers
or user objects only when the computer or user objects match defined criteria.
This makes advanced targeting control possible and allows group policy administrators to pinpoint exactly
where and when a settings should apply.
Item level targeting offers the following capabilities.
You can use it in targeting 27 different categories.
Item level targeting can use this 27 different categories by targeting computers and user objects.
This allows for precision targeting.
Another capability that combines different categories together by using and or or boolean logic.
Instead of using a single category for targeting, you can use multiple categories.
Another capability of it is refresh an item level targeting.
During the group policy background refresh.
This means that configure and compute around user objects by using item level targeting is a dynamic
way to manage the user objects and computer objects.
Here is a list of categories and while a billion item level targeting among them is disk space merge
did file merge older query organizational unit, operating system ram side time range and so on.
Know by using the different categories with boolean logic expressions, you can create precise item
level targeting for each group policy preference of that you configure.
Here are some scenarios in which you could use item level targeting.
You can restrict drive mappings to an Active Directory security group.
You can go a step further by restricting drive mappings with sensitive content to a specific IP address
range.
Another scenario is that you can restrict drive mappings to computers with only a specific file or program
present on this computer.
For example, there is no need to map a drive to where an application stores data.
If the application is not present on that computer, you can configure different power plants for portable
and desktop computers.
You can go a step further and base the power plan on time of day.
So client computers go into standby mode after short or times during not work hours with item level
target.
And you can also deploy printers only to a portable computers when the users are members of a specific
group.
And you can go a step further by deploying one group of printers, two computers that meet certain criteria,
such as if they are portable, being used by a member of a specific group and in a specific IP subnet.
You then could deploy another set of printers while the IP subnet change of another scenario of applying
item level targeting is copying Microsoft Office templates, for example, based on the language of
the operating system installed on the computer.
The next scenario is that you can create a short card based on whether the user is a member of a specific
group and the computer has a specific name.
For example, glam term, the time criteria meets a specific time, for example, is between 8 a.m.
and 5 p.m. And the user is connected to a terminal server from a client computer with an IP address
between a specific range, for example.
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So as you can see, item level targeting is a very powerful and flexible tool that you can implement
in your environment.
Next up, we'll have a demonstration where we'll be configuring group policy preferences.
And I'll see you there.