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Policy assignments - best practices

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This section provides recommendations regarding the effective implementation of policy assignments.

Pragmatic policy assignment rules

We recommend that you simplify policy assignments by defining a baseline or default policy for your organization, and implementing it as a system-based policy. Then, for any exceptions to the policy, create a user-based policy assignment rule. This rule will always supersede system-based policies (both those assigned via the System Tree and those assigned by system-based policy assignment rules), making this the easiest way to implement complex policies. This also minimizes the amount of processing on the ePO - On-prem server.