Linking our new GPO

Our test lab has Active Directory, Group Policy, a few OUs created, and now we even have a new GPO with a setting inside that should set the desktop wallpaper of whatever computers the policy applies to. We are finally ready to test this GPO to make sure it really works; our final remaining step is to link the GPO to a location so that it starts applying. We could link the GPO at the root of the domain and (without additional filtering) it would then filter down to all of the machines that are joined to my domain, but I don't want to be quite that extensive. I just want to test my new GPO out on a single workstation for now, which is a very common task when creating any new GPO or adding a new setting into a GPO. Always ...

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