I recently ran into a GPO problem. My customer wanted to delegate different group policy settings on clients within a specific OU. The OU contained numerous versions of Windows and all versions had different, OS version specific, settings.
I suggested that they should set up a specific GPO per OS and take advantage of the WMI Filtering-function in GPO (this could also be achieved with Group Policy Preferences if preferred).
For example a WMI filter for Windows 7 would be:
select * from Win32_OperatingSystem where Version like "6.1%" and ProductType="1"
The different OS verions can be found below.
Windows Workstation
| Operating system | Version number |
|---|---|
| Windows 10 | 10.0* |
| Windows 8.1 | 6.3* |
| Windows 8 | 6.2 |
| Windows 7 | 6.1 |
| Windows Vista | 6.0 |
| Windows XP (64-Bit) | 5.2 |
| Windows XP | 5.1 |
| Windows 2000 | 5.0 |
Windows Server
| Operating system | Version number |
|---|---|
| Windows Server 2016 | 10.0* |
| Windows Server 2012 R2 | 6.3* |
| Windows Server 2012 | 6.2 |
| Windows Server 2008 R2 | 6.1 |
| Windows Server 2008 | 6.0 |
| Windows Server 2003 R2 | 5.2 |
| Windows Server 2003 | 5.2 |
| Windows 2000 | 5.0 |
* For applications that have been manifested for Windows 8.1 or Windows 10. Applications not manifested for Windows 8.1 or Windows 10 will return the Windows 8 OS version value (6.2). To manifest your applications for Windows 8.1 or Windows 10, refer to Targeting your application for Windows.
Microsoft source: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms724832.aspx
