Hello friends:

I have recently took a new job, the existing Windows 2003 Active Directory
is not pretty, there are many Group Policies that I am trying to understand.
Is there a utility that will tell me what exactly each one of these group
policies accomplish?

Thanks.

Howdie!

genghiz wrote:
> I have recently took a new job, the existing Windows 2003 Active Directory
> is not pretty, there are many Group Policies that I am trying to understand.
> Is there a utility that will tell me what exactly each one of these group
> policies accomplish?

You mean a tool that gives you the explain text messages of each setting
of the policy? There's no such tool. What you can do is use the GPMC and
its settings tab - it displays all settings of a GP. Many of the setting
names of the GPs are very explanatory.

cheers,
Florian
--
Microsoft MVP - Group Policy
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Thanks Florian!!!!



"Florian Frommherz [MVP]" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
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> Howdie!
>
> genghiz wrote:
>> I have recently took a new job, the existing Windows 2003 Active
>> Directory is not pretty, there are many Group Policies that I am trying
>> to understand. Is there a utility that will tell me what exactly each one
>> of these group policies accomplish?
>
> You mean a tool that gives you the explain text messages of each setting
> of the policy? There's no such tool. What you can do is use the GPMC and
> its settings tab - it displays all settings of a GP. Many of the setting
> names of the GPs are very explanatory.
>
> cheers,
> Florian
> --
> Microsoft MVP - Group Policy
> eMail: prename [at] frickelsoft [dot] net.
> blog: http://www.frickelsoft.net/blog.
> Maillist (german): http://frickelsoft.net/cms/index.php?page=mailingliste