You can name your GPOs however you want, but the mindset you take when deciding on those names could benefit or harm your Group Policy environment down the road. In the beginning stages of a fresh Active Directory installation, it is quite easy to find anything inside Group Policy, and you will generally remember offhand where you placed all of your policies. The larger you grow, the more difficult it will become to distinguish between them and track back to changes you made months or even years ago.
There are two typical mindsets that I often see in the wild. They are quite different. The first is to name GPOs according to the places where they will be applying. In this instance, you will see GPO names such as "HR Department ...
