Local Setting vs Effective Setting

[Guest]

To Who Can Help,

What is the difference between the local setting versus the effective
setting under Security Audit policies? What is the effective setting? What
difference would it make if the Security Audit policy is on a member server
vs a domain controller.

 

[Roger Abell [MVP]]

On a stand-alone machine these are the same.
When in Active Directory group policy may be applied from the
GPOs defined in Active Directory. When this is the case, then
the policies in effect (effective) will be a combination of what is
defined on the machine (local) with anything from Active Directory
controlling the actually used value (effective) when the local and
what is being applied conflict.
It is this way for any machine in a domain no matter what role(s)
the machine holds.

 

[Guest]

Thank you Roger!
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Thank you for your help!
JYC

On a stand-alone machine these are the same.
When in Active Directory group policy may be applied from the
GPOs defined in Active Directory. When this is the case, then
the policies in effect (effective) will be a combination of what is
defined on the machine (local) with anything from Active Directory
controlling the actually used value (effective) when the local and
what is being applied conflict.
It is this way for any machine in a domain no matter what role(s)
the machine holds.