Excluding a specific machine from Group Policy – Server Essentials 2012

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Server OS: Server Essentials 2012
Client OS Windows 8.1

I have a domain set up using SE 2012 and have used the group Policy wizard to apply Folder Redirection and "Security Settings".

Can I make an exception for a specific machine so that Folder Redirection and Windows Update settings are not applied for that machine.

Yes. There a few basic approaches to his problem.

Organization Units (OUs)
- You can use OUs to control which computers get which policies, either by linking different group policies to different OUs, or by blocking inheritance in some OUs.
Filtering
- You can use either WMI filtering or Security Filtering to force GPOs to apply or not apply to given computer and/or user object(s).
Group Policy Precedence
- Not all group policy objects have the same precedence. You can use this to have a desired group policy effectively overrule an undesired one.