WMI Filtering in Windows Group Policy
Apparently, there is a lot of confusion out in the land of the Interwebs among people in the IT community regarding Group Policy in Windows and using WMI Filtering to target Desktop machines. Being that the Global IT Team and I were attempting to set up new WSUS servers for each of the regions across the world where we have computers that need updating, we wanted to be able to specifically target Desktops, Laptops, DCs, and Member Servers separately, as doing so allows you to apply different policies for each (Keep in mind that this is essentially a new, entirely Windows Server 2016/Windows 10 environment). There are a couple of key things that you'll need to know for the queries in the WMI filters that you'll need. Namely: "ProductType" This value will look at the installed operating system on a machine. 1 = Desktop OS 2 = Server OS - Domain Controller 3 = Server OS - Non-Domain Controller "PCSystemType" This value will look at the actual h