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How will AD behave if a GPO is created for software that was pre-installed?

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Hello! Hopefully this question will have a quick answer. Here's the scenario...

I've been setting up PCs in my school, successfully creating images for each brand-model combo. I've been pre-installing the Google Chrome browser, so it's already included within re-imaged PCs.

I was out-of-work for a while, healing some fractured ribs and arm. In the meanwhile, a co-worker came across a single PC that didn't have Chrome installed... which was in a specialty office where it had previously been asked that Chrome specifically NOT be installed, which I didn't. The co-worker created a Group Policy Object (GPO) in Active Directory (AD) and assigned it to multiple organizational units (OUs).

Now that I'm back to work, I find that sometimes, upon running gpupdate /force /boot on a few older WinXP PCs that hadn't been updated since before my...


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