Editing WMI filters to run 1607 side by side with 1903

[kennysarmy]

When I migrated from Windows 7 to Windows 10 (1607 LTSB) about 3 years ago I created a new WMI filter for Windows 10 : select Version,ProductType from Win32_OperatingSystem where Version like "10.%" and ProductType = "1"

This filter was used primarily to distinguish between User based desktop redirection and lock-down policies for Win7 and Win10.

 

All the new Windows 10 PC's were kept in separate OU's to the Windows 7 devices so new Windows 10 computer policies did not require a WMI filter.

 

Now I'm starting to test Windows 10 1903 would it make sense to create two new WMI filters for the two versions of Windows 10 that may co-exist on the network:

 

1607 WMI filter would be : select * from Win32_OperatingSystem WHERE Version like "10.0.14393%" AND ProductType="1" AND OSArchitecture = "64-bit"

 

1093 WMI filter would be : select * from Win32_OperatingSystem WHERE Version like "10.0.18362%" AND ProductType="1" AND OSArchitecture = "64-bit"

 

 

I can then work through each Group Policy object and determine if it is applicable to both OS's and leave it without a WMI filter or create new GPO's where necessary, editing the old one to use the 1607 filter and set any new GPO's to use the new 1093 WMI filter.

 

 

Does that make sense?