GPResult.exe

[Jackie]

I am trying to use GPResult.exe to find out what GPO's
have been applied to certain workstations under certain
users logins. Under our user's logins, they can not get
to a command prompt to run the executable.

How can I run the tool from my machine (under an admin
login) and get the results from another workstation/user?
Or how can I run it without using a command prompt and
still print out the results?

Thanks!

 

[Tomasz Onyszko]

I am trying to use GPResult.exe to find out what GPO's
have been applied to certain workstations under certain
users logins. Under our user's logins, they can not get
to a command prompt to run the executable.

How can I run the tool from my machine (under an admin
login) and get the results from another workstation/user?
Or how can I run it without using a command prompt and
still print out the results?

Install and use GPMC to get result set of policy for this workstation

 

[Andrew Mitchell]

I am trying to use GPResult.exe to find out what GPO's
have been applied to certain workstations under certain
users logins. Under our user's logins, they can not get
to a command prompt to run the executable.

How can I run the tool from my machine (under an admin
login) and get the results from another workstation/user?
Or how can I run it without using a command prompt and
still print out the results?

As mentioned by Tomasz, you can use the RSOP snapin for the MMC, or your
other (command line) option is to get PSTools from sysinternals.com. The tool
you are after is PSExec.

 

[Jackie]

Thanks Thomasz - however I can only get the GPMC tool to
get results on workstations running Windows XP. Most of
our machines run Windows 2000. Am I doing something wrong?

 

[Jim Singh]

Jackie -
you cant use the GPMC tool to get to the 2k pro clients (unless you have
sp3 above on it - i think) .. the best way to do it is to open an mmc on
your workstations - add the gp analysis tool- and do the RSoP from it. This
will display all the available settings that comp. is getting. there are
some great third party tools you can use for ex: NetIQ GPA - GPA really
helps you get to the granular level, and help you diagnose and trouble shoot
GPO problems on client computers. you can even do a remote diagnostics on
that remote client (which requires GPA agent installation). Also, it alows
you to make changes to GPO offline in a repository, version the GPO and
rollback etc.
I have seen cases where you apply a certain GPO to an OU and then it wont
apply the settings appropriately, in that case you have to edit the gpo with
some other settings(bogus) and click apply and exit the GPO. Then go back to
edit the GPO and undo the previous bogus setting - apply - exit, this
procedure tends to initiate the GPO.

-Jim