Scenario: A Citrix Administrator discovers that a Citrix policy configured using the Group Policy Management Console is NOT being applied to Windows 7 Desktop OS machines. The policy is being…

WMI filters evaluate a WMI query on each target machine before the GPO is applied; if the query only returns true for Windows 8.1 - for example by filtering on a specific OS version number or build - the GPO is skipped entirely on Windows 7 machines. This selective behavior exactly matches the described scenario where the same policy processes correctly on one OS version but is completely ignored on another. Reviewing the WMI filter query associated with the GPO and broadening it to include Windows 7 in its scope would resolve the issue.

The Delivery Group type filter is a Citrix Studio policy filter within the XenDesktop/CVAD policy engine and is not a Group Policy Management Console construct that would cause OS-version-selective GPO application.

Disabling User Configuration settings within a GPO prevents user-based settings from applying universally to all targeted machines, not selectively based on the Windows version of the machine.

Disabling Computer Configuration settings within a GPO prevents computer-based settings from applying to all targeted machines equally, not selectively based on which Windows OS version is running.