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Tool to document GPO settings

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by faisalmasood

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Is there any tool / utility (preferablly free) which can give the GPO options & their values in documented form?

I've to prepare a document on which options of GPO to use & their asigned values. It would take hell of time for me to write each option & its value.

The document would be used as standard policy for GPO settings.

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by loudmouth

First off, to answer sgt_shultz' question : A GPO is a group policy object. Group policies are a set of configuration settings that a group policy adminstrator applies to one or more objects in Active Directory. You use these policies to control a user's desktop environment, such as : controlling or deploying the programs that are available to users, the programs that appear on a user's desktop, and the start menu options.

Now back to you Fast'n Furious : I'm not sure but I read something about group policy object's properties being written to some GPT (template) which is supposedly the underlying structure of the GPO and is hidden from the administrator under the %sytemroot%\SYSVOL\sysvol\"domain name" \Policies. Hope this helps.

by faisalmasood

U r right. The settings are stored there. But i asked about any way or tool to document the settings / values.

by faisalmasood

May be.. But there must be some tool / utility out there to do this.... May be we are unaware of it. :)

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