Re: GPO Settings Comparison

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Nothing that is totally out of the box. However, what you could do is use
GPMC to output a settings report from each GPO to an HTML or XML file and
then use Windiff to compare the differences. There are third party GP
management products that do compares but they also do a lot more stuff and
probably are more than you need.

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"phawley77" <phawley77@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>I was wondering if there was a way or tools to compare two sets of GPOs.
>
> We have an update to one of our products that incorparates changes to
> around
> 20 GPOs and we have to apply this whole update in one hit. And we have
> one
> environment that is a unique implementation of our solution, and has been
> changed by the customer many times. I was wondering therefore if there is
> a
> way to model offline, differences in two different GPO sets (the live and
> the
> changes the update would make) both in settings and values for these
> settings
> so that we can make the necessary changes to the standard GPO set. If
> there
> are no MS tools around then suggestions for third party tools would be
> appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Phil


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