Settings in policies
Replay Machine Settings
You find this setting under .
If you select Replay Machine Settings in the field Policy Loopback of a policy of the type General Settings and the policy comes from a computer (Replay Machine Settings does not affect user policies), this policy is replayed at the end of the analysis. This then overrides any user settings and the machine settings apply. All machine settings inherited directly or indirectly by the machine (including policies which have not been applied by the Replay Machine Settings policy loopback) are rewritten.
Ignore User
You find this setting under .
If you select Ignore User for a policy for a computer in the field Policy Loopback of a policy of the type General Settings and the policy comes from a machine, only the machines settings are analyzed. User settings are not analyzed.
No Loopback
You find this setting under .
No Loopback describes the standard behavior. User policies take priority over computer policies.
Analyze the settings "Ignore User" and "Replay Machine Settings"
If there are active policy assignments, the machine policies are analyzed and consolidated first. If, with the Policy Loopback option, this amalgamation of individual policies results in the value Ignore User, the policies that would have been fixed for the user will not be analyzed. This means that the same policies apply both for the user and for the machine.
If, after merging the individual machine policies, the value with the Policy Loopback attribute is Replay Machine Settings, the user policies are merged with the machine policies. After the merge, the machine policies are rewritten and, where appropriate, override settings from the user policies. If a setting is present in both policies, the machine policy value overrides the user policy value.
If the consolidation of the individual machine policies results in the standard value (No Policy Loopback), user settings take priority over machine settings.
Order of the execution of policies
Ignore User Computers
Replay Machine Settings Computer -> User -> Computer. The first "machine execution" is required for the policies which are written before user logon (for example background image at logon).
No Loopback (standard setting): Computer -> User