Now that you know the four tiers of Group Policy processing, let's bring it back to the reason why this is even important. Certainly, you could start creating GPOs and handing out settings willy-nilly without knowing any of this, right? Yes, and you might get away with it for a long time as well, but eventually you'll have to troubleshoot a GPO or figure out where a particular setting is coming from, or perhaps why a setting is not showing up or not working. That is when this information comes into play.
It's also super helpful to know all of this when taking a new job at a new organization where you were not the original creator of the Group Policy infrastructure.
The four types of policy processing are listed in a particular ...
