Scenario: Citrix Profile Management is deployed in a XenDesktop environment. A Citrix Engineer set up group policies and configured the .INI file on Desktop OS machines for Citrix Profile…

Local Policy is lower in the standard Windows policy processing order and is overridden by domain-level Group Policy Objects.

Citrix Profile Management is designed so that any setting configured via Group Policy (GPO) will override the equivalent setting in the UPMPolicyDefaults_All.ini file. This allows administrators to enforce consistent policy through Active Directory while the .INI file serves only as a local fallback when no GPO setting is defined.

The UPMPolicyDefaults_All.ini file is explicitly documented as a lower-priority fallback that is overridden by any conflicting GPO setting.

Citrix Studio policies apply to the XenDesktop delivery layer, but for Citrix Profile Management configuration conflicts specifically, Active Directory Group Policy takes precedence over the .INI file.