Will changing GPO to 'Not Config' reset the policy back to its default setting?

[TwistedHelixis]

Recently took over a new primary school and just looking through the GPOs which are a mess. Lots of GPOs are redundant but still active so are still altering the local client and server policies. for example there is a WSUS policy that points to a WSUS server that is no longer in the school.

 

With lots of these policies I would like to get all the defaults back but on the client / server and wondered if simply setting the GPO option with 'Not Configured' is enough to overwrite the current client /server settings with the original default settings or will it just keep using the last wrong setting that was set before.

 

For example if I set the WSUS server location to 'Not Configured' will it then use the default MS servers? or do I actually now need to add in the MS server address.

 

Really hoping the 'Not Configured' option will override the redundant policies as it will make everything much simpler

[pete]

"Not Configured" means "don't make any changes to what's already there".

 

So if you pushed down a WSUS URL (for example) via a GPO and then flipped that GPO setting to "not configured", that WSUS URL would stay on any client that had already applied that policy.

[TwistedHelixis]

BUM that is what I thought

[Domino]

IIRC if you set "Specify intranet Microsoft update service location" to disabled, it'll use the Internet location.

[TwistedHelixis]

IIRC if you set "Specify intranet Microsoft update service location" to disabled, it'll use the Internet location.

 

cheers