Exclude a specific User, Group Or machine from A Group Policy

Sometimes when applying a group policy to the domain there is a need to exclude users, groups or computers from the policy or in other words not applying the group policy to them.

To do so, follow the steps:

Open the group policy using the group policy management utility.

Click on group policy you want to exclude users form.
Go to Delegation tab and add the User, Group or machine
Then Choose “Read” from the drop down as the default.  Click OK.
Select the User, Group Or machine from the list
Then click the advanced tab
Select “Deny” next to the “Apply Group Policy”

To check the policy run “gpupdate /force” and “gpresult”.


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