Group Policy Loopback Processing
Group Policy loopback processing, shown in Figure 19.10, allows for the processing of both the Computer Configuration and User Configuration nodes within a policy even if the user object is not in the same container as the computer that the group policy is linked to. As an example, this function would be useful with a Remote Desktop Session Host server deployment where you want to apply computer configuration policies to configure the Remote Desktop server settings but you also want to control the user settings of any user who logs on to the server, regardless of where the actual user account is stored in Active Directory.
Figure 19.10. GROUP Policy loopback processing.
There are two different loopback configurations: ...
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