Re: Group Policy debug tool?

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From: Chriss3 (noSpamHere_at_chrisse.se)
Date: 04/25/04 

Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2004 23:17:14 +0200

JSI Tip 3799. How do I monitor group policy functions?
http://www.jsiinc.com/SUBH/tip3700/rh3799.htm

250842 - Troubleshooting Group Policy Application Problems
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;250842

You can also use the command line tool gpresult.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/techinfo/reskit/tools/existing/gpresult-o.asp 

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"Adam Leinss" <aleinss@toughguy.net> skrev i meddelandet
news:30538e20.0404251224.581996ec@posting.google.com...
> Does a group policy debug tool exist?  We had a 3rd party come in to
> do our group policy setup.  Now that we are implementing Windows 2000
> in departments we are finding users are restricted by group policy in
> silly ways, such as not being able to save a DOC file from a web site.
>  We then have to go into the GPMC and through guesswork drill down to
> what we think the policy is that is blocking the particular action the
> user is trying to do.  It would be nice to turn on the tool, do the
> action and then when that user gets the restriction  have that logged
> somewhere so we can track what policy is causing the action.
>
> If you ever used Regmon to monitor a program's access to the registry
> or Filemon to monitor a program's access to file(s), I'm thinking this
> utility would work that way.
>
> Thanks,
> Adam

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