Determine Resultant Set of Policy with Group Policy Results

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Applies To: Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2003 with SP1, Windows Server 2003 with SP2

Determine Resultant Set of Policy with Group Policy Results

  1. Open Group Policy Management.

  2. In the console tree, double-click the forest in which you want to create a Group Policy Results query, right-click Group Policy Results, and then click Group Policy Results Wizard.

  3. In the Group Policy Results Wizard, click Next and enter the appropriate information.

  4. After completing the wizard, click Finish.

  5. If you want to print or save the report, right-click the settings report in the results pane and do one of the following:

    • Select Print to print the report.

    • Select Save Report to save the report.

Notes

  • To access Group Policy Results data for a user or computer, you must have Read Group Policy Results data permission on the domain or organizational unit that contains the user or computer, or you must be a member of a local Administrator's group on the targeted computer.

  • To customize the information displayed in a report, click show or hide to display only the data you want to view or print.

  • On computers with Internet Explorer Enhanced Security Configuration enabled a prompt appears when you attempt to view reports in the Group Policy Management Console (GPMC) snap-in. This happens because the reports contain a script that allows you to expand and collapse sections of the reports using Show and Hide. To enable the Show and Hide functionality in these reports, you must add the about:security_MMC.exe site to the Trusted sites zone in Internet Explorer. This site represents all Web pages that are hosted inside MMC. You can do this by clicking Add on the Internet Explorer prompt. This opens the Trusted sites dialog box with the correct entry (about:security_mmc.exe) for the page being called by GPMC. Select Add and then Close on the Trusted sites dialog box to add this site to the Trusted sites zone. If the about:security_mmc.exe site is not added to the Trusted sites zone, the reports appear fully expanded and you cannot collapse the report.

  • From within Group Policy Management, it is not possible to use the keyboard to navigate inside an HTML report. To navigate inside the HTML save the report to a file and then use Internet Explorer to view the report. The reports have been designed to support keyboard navigation when viewed directly in Internet Explorer.

  • If you open a previously saved console, and want to save a Group Policy Modeling or Group Policy Results report in XML, the report must be regenerated using the Rerun query option.

  • To view a saved report directly in a Web browser, you must use Internet Explorer 6 or Netscape 7. Netscape 7 does not support functionality that enables you to show or hide data in reports.

  • The functionality provided by Group Policy Results was previously referred to as Resultant Set of Policy - logging mode in Windows XP.

Information about functional differences

  • Your server might function differently based on the version and edition of the operating system that is installed, your account permissions, and your menu settings. For more information, see Viewing Help on the Web.

See Also

Concepts

Group Policy Management Console Overview
Start Group Policy Management Console