1. Chapter 7: Managing and Troubleshooting Group Policy

2. Introducing Group Policy Active Directory Overview Group Policy Capabilities What’s New in Windows Vista Group Policy Domain vs. Local Policy 2

3. Active Directory Overview Hierarchical Organizational Units Group Policy Objects (GPO) –Apply Settings to Users and Computers –Last GPO applied wins 3

4. Group Policy Capabilities Modify Registry Settings Software Management with Group Policy Security Settings Scripts IE Settings Folder Redirection 4

5. What’s New in Windows Vista Group Policy Printer Management Power Management Device Access 5

6. Domain vs. Local Policy Active Directory - GPOs Local Machine – LGPOs Some Settings not available on LGPOs –Folder redirection –Remote Installation Services –Software Distribution 6

7. Troubleshooting Group Policy Using gpresult.exe Using GPUpdate.exe Troubleshooting Group Policy with the GPMC Troubleshooting Group Policy with Event Logs 7

8. Using gpresult.exe GPOs applied in order –Local Policy –GPOs linked to the machine’s site –GPOs linked to the domain –GPOs linked to Ous Helps determine where a setting came from Resultant Set of Policy (RSoP) 8

9. Using GPUpdate.exe Refreshes all GPO settings Commonly used after a change Can be limited to user settings, computer settings, or both 9

10. Troubleshooting Group Policy with the GPMC Similar to GPResult.exe with GUI Reports on User and Computer Settings 10

11. Troubleshooting Group Policy with Event Logs Using Group Policy Operational Log Custom Views to Find Correlations 11