How can I force a user to use a machine-specific Group Policy rather than a user-specific Group Policy?

A. Typically, the settings that the OS applies when a user logs on are based on the user's account container (e.g., a domain, a site, an organizational unit--OU), regardless of which container the user's machine belongs to. In some instances, you might want to forgo using this default behavior and instead associate a user's settings with the location of the user's computer within Active Directory (AD). For example, you might want to set a strict, defined set of policies for a publicly accessible computer, regardless of who logs on to that computer.

To establish machine-specific settings, use Group Policy to set the computer's container to "loopback" mode--so that the computer's client settings take precedence--by performing the following steps: