Trying to do something that I'm not even sure possible. I work in a very large corporate environment and we cannot apply WMI filters to all of our users. The impact would be too high to the domain controllers as we have over 150k users
accounts.
I'd like to set a user side registry setting to only Windows8ToGo devices. The only way I know how to identify a WTG is by using a WMI query.
I thought by using ILT I could first pair down the collection by OS so I use Windows 8 for that and then nest another collection inside that one that does my WMI query.
Collection is True
- OS is Win8
AND This Collection is True
- WMI SELECT * FROM Win32_OperatingSystem WHERE PortableOperatingSystem=True.
This actually works great. But what I thought would happen is that it would run the Win8 OS test first and NOT attempt the WMI query on lets say a Win7 box. But I turned on GPO logging for preferences and in the User.log I'm seeing it test the OS and "Fail" and yet it runs the WMI anyway.
I'm looking for an equivalent of a nested IF where it would not process the WMI at all if it tests false. I even tried reversing the nesting thinking that it would process the inner most collection first like in an algebraic expression.
The part that puzzles me is that if it works just the same as if i had put the 2nd collection at the same level as the first, whats the difference in putting it under it?
Thanks in advance!