Re: GPO Settings Comparison

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Ah right - didn't think of doing it that way - can i get meaningful results
from the out of windiff including the values for the Reg keys? I used
windiff before I posted directly on the Pol files associated with the GPO's.
But this didn't keep the values. Have used a app called 'beyond compare' to
compare diffs in Reg frags obtained from the Pol files. Was hoping for a way
that can be scripted, and kepping the values for the keys.

Cheers,

Phil

"Darren Mar-Elia" wrote:

> 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.
>
> --
> Darren Mar-Elia
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>
>
>
> "phawley77" <phawley77@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:6F33B519-226E-41C3-AEAA-2BE8403D0571@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >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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