Advanced Troubleshooting with Resultant Set of Policy (RSoP)

Jeffery HicksPrincipal ConsultantJDH Information Technology Solutions

WCL303

Agenda

What is Resultant Set of Policy?Using the Group Policy Management ConsoleUsing Windows PowerShellUsing the CMD shell

Demos and scripts will be available from http://jdhitsolutions.com/blog

Requirements

Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 7Enable Group Policy featurePermissions to read and generate Resultant Set of Policy data (per container)Remote Management Firewall Exception

What is Resultant Set of Policy?

Group Policy can be applied to computer and/or userPolicies set at Site, Domain and OrganizationalUnit You could have multiple policiesLast applied “wins”RSoP is the cumulative effect for user and/or computer

RSoP Modes

Modeling (or What If…)Predicts what should happenUse for planning and testingNo computer access required

Results (or What Really Happened)Get the actual resultsPer user or machineRequires connectivity to computerUser must have logged on

Using the Group Policy Management Console

Wizard drivenSpecify User(s) and/or Computer(s)Specify group membershipsSpecify WMI filters

Create new reports from existingCreate HTML or XML ReportsRe-Run Advanced View to help find settings and their policy

demo

Using the Group Policy Management ConsoleRSoP

Using the Group Policy Module

Requires Remote Server Administration ToolsRequires Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2RSoP Permissions are set per container

Using the Module

Import-Module GroupPolicyGet-GPResultantSetofPolicy cmdlet

Specify User/ComputerCreate HTML/XML reportsDoes Logging Only

Parse the XML document in PowerShell

demo

Using the Group Policy Cmdlets and Windows PowerShell

Using the CMD Shell

GPRESULT.EXECreate same type of reports (XML and HTML)Can be used remotelyYou can also get more detailed processing information

Using GPResult

My Resources

Managing Active Directory with Windows PowerShell: TFM 2nd Ed. (SAPIEN Press 2011)Group Policy Team Blog: http://blogs.technet.com/b/grouppolicy/GPAnswers.com (http://www.gpanswers.com)http://jdhitsolutions.com/blog

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