Group Policy Management Console icons reference

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

Group Policy Management Console icons reference

Group Policy Management Console (GPMC) provides context-specific icons to dynamically represent the state of console objects. There are different icons for Group Policy objects (GPOs), links, WMI filters, sites, forests, and other objects and containers.

General usage of icons

Some icons exist in only one version. For example, the icon for GPMC always looks the same:

Other icons have variations in appearance. The variations indicate the state of the object. For example, when the icon for a domain or organizational unit is shown with a blue circle and exclamation point superimposed, such as:

and ,

this means that inheritance is blocked on that domain or organizational unit.

Glossary of icons

The following is a list of icons used in GPMC.

GPO icons

GPO link icons

Icons showing whether inheritance is blocked

WMI filtering icons

Resultant Set of Policy icons

Other GPMC icons

GPO icons

Icon	Description
	GPO is either fully enabled or half enabled. Either all settings are enabled, or either user configuration or computer configuration settings are enabled.
	GPO that is completely disabled. Both user configuration and computer configuration settings are both disabled.

GPO link icons

Icon	Description
	Enabled, non-enforced GPO link.
	Enabled, enforced GPO link.
	Enabled link to inaccessible GPO. The GPO exists but is not readable, perhaps because you do not have Read access to it.
	Enabled link to nonexistent GPO. Either the GPO has been deleted but the link somehow remains, or the GPO was created on another domain controller and it has not yet replicated to the domain controller that GPMC is using.
	Unenforced link to completely disabled GPO.
	Enforced link to completely disabled GPO.
	Disabled link to enabled or half-enabled GPO.
	Enforced and disabled link to enabled or half-enabled GPO.
	Disabled link to inaccessible GPO. The GPO exists but is not readable, perhaps because you do not have Read access to it.
	Disabled link to nonexistent GPO. Either the GPO has been deleted but the link somehow remains, or the GPO was created on another domain controller, and it has not yet replicated to the domain controller that GPMC is using.
	Disabled link to completely disabled GPO.
	Enforced and disabled link to completely disabled GPO.

Icons showing whether inheritance is blocked

Icon	Description
	Domain with inheritance allowed.
	Domain with inheritance blocked.
	Organizational unit with inheritance allowed.
	Organizational unit with inheritance blocked.

WMI filtering icons

Icon	Description
	WMI filters container.
	WMI filter.

Resultant Set of Policy icons

Icon	Description
	Group Policy Modeling container.
	Group Policy Modeling query.
	Group Policy Results container.
	Group Policy Results query.

Other GPMC icons

Icon	Description
	Forest.
	Domains container.
	Security principal that could not be resolved.
	Security group.
	User object.
	Computer object.
	GPO container
	Sites container.
	Site.

For more information about GPMC, see Group Policy Management Console Overview.