Security template registry settings

Security settings can control:. A security policy is a combination of security settings that affect the security on a device. You can use your local security policy to edit account policies and local policies on your local device. If your local device is joined to a domain, you are subject to obtaining a security policy from the domain's policy or from the policy of any organizational unit that you are a member of. If you are getting a policy from more than one source, conflicts are resolved in the following order of precedence.

If you modify the security settings on your local device by using the local security policy, then you are directly modifying the settings on your device. Therefore, the settings take effect immediately, but this may only be temporary.

The settings will actually remain in effect on your local device until the next refresh of Group Policy security settings, when the security settings that are received from Group Policy will override your local settings wherever there are conflicts. This section contains information in this topic about:. Once you have edited the security settings, the settings are refreshed on the computers in the organizational unit linked to your Group Policy Object:.

For security settings that are defined by more than one policy, the following order of precedence is observed:. For example, a workstation that is joined to a domain will have its local security settings overridden by the domain policy wherever there is a conflict.

Likewise, if the same workstation is a member of an Organizational Unit, the settings applied from the Organizational Unit's policy will override both the domain and local settings. If the workstation is a member of more than one Organizational Unit, then the Organizational Unit that immediately contains the workstation has the highest order of precedence.

Use gpresult. For domain accounts, there can be only one account policy that includes password policies, account lockout policies, and Kerberos policies. Security settings may still persist even if a setting is no longer defined in the policy that originally applied it. All settings applied through local policy or a Group Policy Object are stored in a local database on your device.

Whenever a security setting is modified, the computer saves the security setting value to the local database, which retains a history of all the settings that have been applied to the device. If a policy first defines a security setting and then no longer defines that setting, then the setting takes on the previous value in the database.

If a previous value does not exist in the database, then the setting does not revert to anything and remains defined as is.

This behavior is sometimes called "tattooing. Registry and file settings will maintain the values applied through policy until that setting is set to other values. You can also decide what users or groups will or will not have a Group Policy Object applied to them regardless of what computer they have logged onto by denying them either the Apply Group Policy or Read permission on that Group Policy Object. Both of these permissions are needed to apply Group Policy.

Security Configuration and Analysis provides the ability to import and export security templates into or from a database. If you have made any changes to the analysis database, you can save those settings by exporting them into a template. The export feature provides the ability to save the analysis database settings as a new template file. This template file can then be used to analyze or configure a system, or it can be imported to a Group Policy Object.

Security Configuration and Analysis performs security analysis by comparing the current state of system security against an analysis database. During creation, the analysis database uses at least one security template. If you choose to import more than one security template, the database will merge the various templates and create one composite template.

It resolves conflicts in order of import; the last template that is imported takes precedence. Security Configuration and Analysis displays the analysis results by security area, using visual flags to indicate problems.

It displays the current system and base configuration settings for each security attribute in the security areas. To change the analysis database settings, right-click the entry, and then click Properties. If you choose to accept the current settings, the corresponding value in the base configuration is modified to match them. If you change the system setting to match the base configuration, the change will be reflected when you configure the system with Security Configuration and Analysis.

To avoid continued flagging of settings that you have investigated and determined to be reasonable, you can modify the base configuration. Thank you. Friday, September 6, AM. Hello, These policies are legacy policies, you will have to download them to make them appear. Hi, I think if the corresponding registry keys and values generate, the GPO will be apply successfully. For the above GPO, on the server, I can see the corresponding registry keys and values generate as below: So I think if one policy is enabled on the gpresult file even though the Local Group Policy Editor is showing "Not Configured" about this policy, the policy is applied.

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Best Regards, Daisy Zhou Please remember to mark the replies as answers if they help. Thursday, September 12, AM. Hello, Thank you for posting in our TechNet forum. If this question has any update or is this issue solved? Also, for the question, is there any other assistance we could provide?

Monday, September 9, AM. Hi Leon, Thanks so much for the help. Hope to have some advice on this. Hi Leon, Thanks for your help again.

May I just check is this the correct behavior for GPO? Tuesday, September 10, AM. Hi, Yes, it is the correct behavior for GPO. The Managed property filter has three states: Any , Yes , and No. Setting this property filter to Yes causes the editor to show only managed Administrative Template policy settings, hiding all unmanaged Administrative Template policy settings.

Setting this property filter to No causes the editor to show only unmanaged Administrative Template policy settings, hiding all managed Administrative Template policy settings.

Click Filter Options. Click OK to apply the new filter settings, and close the Filter Options dialog box. You can configure Administrative Template policy settings to one of three states: Not Configured , Enabled , and Disabled. Not Configured is the default state for all policy settings. Policy settings set to Not Configured do not affect users or computers.

Enabling an Administrative Template policy setting activates the policy setting. When Enabled , the action described in the title of the policy setting applies to the user or computer. When Disabled , the opposite action described in the title of the policy setting applies to the user or computer.

Usually Not Configured and Disabled policy settings produce the same results. The difference is that Not Configured policy settings do not apply to the user, but Disabled policy settings apply to a user. Each Administrative Template policy setting provides detailed information about its Enabled , Disabled , and Not Configured states.

You can view this information in the Help pane of each Administrative Template policy setting. Or, you can view this information for the selected policy setting in the Extended View of the editor. The Configured property filter has three states: Any , Yes , and No. Setting this property filter to Any causes the Local Group Policy Editor to display all Administrative Template policy settings and is the default setting for this filter. Setting this property filter to Yes causes the editor to show only configured Administrative Template policy settings, hiding not configured policy settings.

Setting this property filter to No causes the editor to show only not configured Administrative Template policy settings, hiding configured policy settings.

Each Administrative Template policy setting has a comment property. The Commented property allows you to enter text associated with a specific policy setting. The Commented property filter has three states: Any , Yes , and No. Setting this proper filter to Yes causes the editor to show only commented Administrative Template policy settings, hiding policy settings without comments.