Understanding Priority

Endpoint Policy Manager Admin Templates Manager enables you to put policy directives inside a single GPO and within a single collection. This is most useful when used in conjunction with Item-Level Targeting, as described in the previous section.

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Here you can see the same policy, Screen saver timeout, used three times within the same GPO. However, each policy directive has Item-Level Targeting turned on and specific conditions associated with it.

We recommend using Endpoint Policy Manager Admin Templates Manager in the following ways:

Create multiple policy directives in a collection within a GPO
Use Item-Level Targeting to set the conditions
Set a description about that particular AppSet item (see the next section)

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Occasionally there can be multiple AppSets that have overlapping settings. In that case, ensure that the delivery of those settings occur in a particular order. As we see above, Endpoint Policy Manager Admin Templates Manager enables you to specify the order policy settings are delivered in.

Policy settings within a GPO are processed in order from lowest to highest.

NOTE: This is the same way Group Policy Preferences performs ordering as well.

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To change the priority of a particular AppSet, click on it and select ether Raise Priority, Lower Priority, Maximum Priority, or Minimum Priority.