: Policies stored on the individual computer. These are the weakest and are usually overridden by network-level policies.

What happens if you have five different GPOs all linked to the same OU? In this case, you must look at the in the Group Policy Management Console (GPMC).

If you have ever spent hours troubleshooting why a specific security setting won’t apply to a workstation, you have likely run into the complex world of Group Policy Object (GPO) precedence. In Active Directory, multiple GPOs often target the same user or computer, and when their settings conflict, Windows needs a clear set of rules to decide which one "wins."

The fundamental order in which GPOs are processed is often remembered by the acronym . Settings are applied in this specific sequence, with the later policies overwriting the earlier ones: