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Group Policy – GPResult Examples JUNE 4, 2014 / [email protected] / 9 COMMENTS

GPResult is a command-line utility for determining the resultant set of policy for a given and/or computer. In other words, it shows you what Group Policy Objects have been applied and their settings. This is typically one of the rst tools I go to when troubleshooting Group Policy from a client once basic connectivity has been con rmed (e.g. Network/DNS). The tool itself is very simple to use and I will run through some common examples below. List GPOs Applied with Summary Data

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Gpresult /r

/r Displays RSOP summary data

This is pretty useful when you simply want to see what GPOs have applied and in what order. It will also display summary data, such as last time group policy was applied, which Domain Controller it was applied from, the site, security groups and if the slow link threshold has been activated. If you are unsure if a GPO has been applied, this is a quick way of checking. Here we see that 4 GPOs have applied to the Computer settings portion.

If you don’t want to view both Computer and s settings in the output you can request one or the other with the /scope

ag.

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gpresult /r /scope:

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gpresult /r /scope:computer

The output reads fairly well from within the command prompt, but if you need to export the output you could use either of the following. Gpresult /r > gpresult.txt Export output to a text le Gpresult /r |clip Export output to Windows clipboard

I can’t see the Computer Settings? If UAC is enabled, running GPResult without elevating the command prompt will only show you the settings. If you want to see both and computer settings, elevate the command prompt by either tapping the winkey+cmd then ctrl+shift+enter or right click on the command prompt and select run as . If you elevate with an different to the currently logged in (common if the does not have rights), then you will receive an error message stating INFO: The “domain\” does not have RSOP data. This is because GPResult is using the elevated ’s context. To work around this, specify the standard that you are troubleshooting.

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gpresult /r /:sa\edward.thomas

Generate HTML Report

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Gpresult /h report.html /f

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Gpresult /h report.html /:sa\edward.thomas /f

/h Saves the report in HTML format /f Forces GPresult to overwrite the le name speci ed with /h / Speci es the name for which the RSOP data is to be displayed

To get a more graphical view of what’s going on, you can generate a HTML report. This gives a detailed break down of each setting and the GPO from which it came. This view is particularly nice as you can show all and use ctrl+f to nd a particular policy or setting.

Run GPResult on Remote Computer

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Gpresult /s server1 /r

/s Speci es the remote system to connect to

This allows you to run GPResult on a remote system, all of the above applies.

The following GPOs were not applied because they were ltered out

You may see this for a few reasons. The rst that the policy is empty in which case you’ll see Filtering: Not Applied (Empty), this is fairly self explanatory. The second is Filtering: Denied (Security), which typically boils down to the “Apply Group Policy” permission on the GPO. You may also see Filtering: Denied (Unknown Reason) which is similar to (Security) in that the “Read” permissions has been denied. To review the last two examples, launch the GPMC (Group Policy Management Console). Find the offending GPO, and select Delegation- from there you may see an additional group or a single or machine that has been added.

Click on advanced and review the permissions against the object. In this case you can see that the Seven computer object has been denied Apply Group Policy resulting in the Filtering: Denied (Security) message.

If in doubt, select Advanced -> Effective Access and enter the required computer or object. If you scroll down to around halfway you’ll see the Apply Group Policy permission with either a green tick of a red cross against it. If deny read has been granted every permission will have a red cross next to it.

I hope this gives you the basics behind GPResult and some good real world example to aid in your Group Policy troubleshooting.

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9 Comments

Andy K JANUARY 8, 2016 AT 4:32 PM

Thank you so much! This is very bene cial for diagnosing policies applied to a machine and I learned something new about the security context they run in! REPLY

Stephen MARCH 31, 2016 AT 4:44 PM

Very useful, Thank you very much REPLY

AAW MAY 5, 2016 AT 1:25 PM