What Is The Windows Loopback Policy And How Does It Work?
Tuesday, 29 August 2006 by Michel Roth
From John Kellet's blog: What is the loopback policy? How does the loopback policy work?

Group Policies are normally applied to the user or their PC depending on where they are located in Active Directory. There are occasions (Terminal Servers / Citrix servers are a prime example) when you wish users to have certain policies applied depending on which computer (Server) they log on to. This is where the loopback policy comes into its own.


Loopback policies can be applied to Windows 2000 and above. The Loopback policy can be applied in two modes:

• Merge Mode
• Replace Mode

Read the entire article here.

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