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title: "How to create a Governance Filter | v8+"
canonical: "https://ai-docs.certero.com/space/CUP/129040476/How%20to%20create%20a%20Governance%20Filter%20%7C%20v8%2B"
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Governance Policies use Filters to define the reporting logic. Filters are constructed using a powerful but intuitive, graphical Filter Builder. Filters are savable and reusable between policies. A policy has a Policy Filter where you define what success looks like and an optional Data Filter where you can reduce the pool of items being evaluated; for example, a policy which checks that users or computers comply with certain conditions, and where those conditions are country-specific, could have a Data Filter which scopes the policy to a single country.

This article details how you can setup Filters to quickly identify Windows Workstations and Windows Servers to be used for Governance Policies.

## How to setup a filter for Windows Workstations

1. Navigate to your Certero platform.

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2. Click the burger icon.

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3. Click "Governance"

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4. Click "Filters"

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5. Click "New Filter"

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6. Click "Microsoft Windows"

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7. Click the "Name" field.

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8. Type "Windows Workstations"

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9. Click the "Description" field.

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10. Type "A filter to identify Windows Workstations."

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11. Click here.

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12. Click here.

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13. Click here.

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14. Click "Computer Name"

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15. Type "operating"

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16. Click "Operating System > Operating System"

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17. Click Operator

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18. Select "Does not contain"

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19. Click the "Value" field.

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20. For "Value" type "server"

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21. Click here.

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22. Criteria should be displayed as below.

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23. Click "Close"

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24. Click "Save" to commit your changes.

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## How to setup a filter for Windows Servers

As you have created a filter for Windows Workstations already, we can re-use the filter and update the criteria to identify Servers.

1. Open up the "Windows Workstations" filter we created, click "Copy"

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2. Double-click the "Name" field.

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3. Type "Windows Servers"

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4. Double-click the "Description" field.

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5. Type "A filter to identify Windows Servers"

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6. Click Definition Filter.

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7. Click the burger icon to expose the criteria.

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8. Under Operator, Click "Contains"

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9. Click here.

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10. Click "Close".

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11. Click "Save" to commit your changes

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12. Your created filter should be displayed for review.

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