GPO Inheritance Default Domain Policy

For this particular problem, I would take the offending setting out of the DPP and create a GPO with the setting and apply it to the other OU's and whatever setting you need for your special OU
After that, I'd take a look at your DPP and remove anything that could need changed later and make separate GPO's for those.  I generally don't put anything in the DPP
At this time, I wouldn't take the enforce off until you look closely at all your GPO's to make sure nothing crazy will happen

We have a DDP that is set to Enforced at the root level of domain course.One of the settings in the DDP needs to be reversed for one OU. Firewall rule.I have created a new OU and applied a GPO to that OU.The new GPO is not applying because the precedence rules say that the enforced DDP is going to win. Enforcing the new GPO doesn't change this.Do I have any other options other than1. Move the offending piece in the DDP into a new root level GPO that is not enforced2. Remove the Enforced off of the DDP3. Creating the new GPO at the root level and use WMI filtering for one computer.Server 2012/2008 domainThis is an old config and I am not sure why the DDP was enforced to begin with and I would rather avoid moving GPO's around that involve firewall rules and network connectivity. The root level GPO just seems like overkill if it would...
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