Loopback Processing

Group Policy Example

<Domain>
   │
   ├───<Workstation OU>
   │        │    
   │        └─(GPO 1) = Computer Settings 1, User Settings 1)
   │             │
   │             └───────[LedHed-PC1]
   │             
   │
   └───<User OU>
            │ 
            └─(GPO 2) = Computer Settings 1, User Settings 1)
                 │
                 └───────[LedHed]

Legend

Name	Object Type
[LedHed-PC1]	Computer
[LedHed]	User

Standard Group Policy Processing

In the above example there are two Group Policy Objects (GPO).

GPO 1

GPO 2

Each GPO has two settings, Computer and User.

Group Policy applies Computer Settings to Computer Objects and User Settings to User Objects.

Under normal circumstances when the User [LedHed] logs on to Computer [LedHed-PC1] the following GPO settings are applied:
Computer Settings 1
User Settings 2

Loopback Processing

Loopback Processing changes the default behavior described above.