Create GPO on Specific DC

If you do not know what the above title means, then you can probably ignore this post. If you do know what it means, then this post may excite you!

I have had issues in the past with creating GPOs and having them work well at the office with the DC that was created first but other offices were acting very slow, even if the GPO was created on the other server.

I have discovered that the GPO management software will default to the first domain controller and all GPOs created will be created on that first domain controller. In order to change this behaviour, you need to right click on the domain in the GPO management console and select Change domain controller…. You can then select the domain controller that you want to use.

Microsoft Technet has a good article about this called Group Policy Replication and Domain Controller Selection that sheds more light on this issue.