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Understanding Processing Order and Precedence

When you use PolicyPak Java Rules Manager you might have multiple policies and/or conflicting settings. When you do, you should attempt to troubleshoot by understanding the processing order and precedence order as explained in the following sections.

Processing Order​

Within a particular GPO (Computer or User side), the processing order is counted in numerical order. So, lower-numbered collections attempt to process first, and higher-numbered collections attempt to process last. Then, within any collection, each policy is processed in numerical order from lowest to highest.

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Precedence​

Policies can be delivered by Group Policy and non-Group Policy methods such as Microsoft Endpoint Manager (SCCM and Intune) via PolicyPak Exporter or PolicyPak Cloud. As such, the PolicyPak engine needs to make a final determination whether there is any overlap of policies. Here is how the precedence works:

  • Policies delivered through PolicyPak Cloud have the lowest precedence.
  • Policies delivered through PolicyPak files have the next highest precedence.
  • Policies delivered through PolicyPak k Group Policy directives have the highest precedence.