Powershell cmdlets to get GPO version information and also to "Touch" a GPO's version to force clients to think the GPO has changed. Read More... |
Updated! Validates GPO WMI Filters against live systems to make sure that the filter you write will pass or fail as expected. Read More... |
NEW version. 25 PowerShell cmdlets for GPMC (in Server 2008, Vista, SP1 version)--builds on what we have here with the following: Read More... |
This .vbs script will disable the local GPO on a given pre-Vista system (Vista comes with an Admin. Template policy to do this). On Win2K, XP and 2003, there is no centralized way to disable the Local GPO. Read More... |
This utility simplifies the creation of the "Central Store" for storing Vista ADMX/ADML templates. Its a very simple utility. Updated version 1.1 released! Read More... |
This utility provides read-only access into the registry.pol file (or any other .pol file). Registry.pol is the file that GP uses to store registry-based policy settings made by Administrative Template, Software Restriction Policy or Disk Quota policy. Read More... |
This is a custom .ADM file that exposes the log size and retention method options for the "non-standard" event logs found on Active Directory Domain Controllers. Read More... |
GPLogging.ADMX : This is a port of gpolog.adm to the new Vista ADMX/ADML file format. Included in the download is the ADMX file for enabling the logs that are still valid in Vista, as well as the language-independent strings file (.ADML) for the English language. See also the ADM version of this in this Free Tools section. Read More... |
This is a custom .ADM file that I created that exposes all the GPO-related logging that I could find documented, including verbose Application Event Log stuff, Software Installation, Folder Redirection, Security, GPMC and even logging of the GPO Editor client itself. Check out the related ADMX version of this as well! Read More... |
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GPSI "GYPSY" VIEWER UTILITYWithin native tools, there is no way to quickly get an at-a-glance view of all applications deployed via Group Policy Software Installation (GPSI) policy across a domain. This simple GUI utility lets you quickly view all applications that have been published or assigned (or removed) using Group Policy, within a domain. With the newest version, you can also print the list of applications to a report or save it as a .csv file. Read More... |
UPDATED!!!! This is a handy little MMC namespace extension DLL written for me by one of the smartest guys I know--Chuck McDonald. Chuck can do pretty much anything with code. One thing I've always been frustrated about in the GPO Editor tool is the inability to copy the path that you're currently selected on to the clipboard. Read More... |
This handy little utility is designed to quickly and succintly report the last time computer and user Group Policy was run on a local or remote system. If there has been more than one user logged onto the system, the tool will report GP processing times for all users found. (This tool works for XP and Server 2003 only--Win2K not supported) Read More... |
Alan Cuthbertson over at SysProSoft down in Oz has some cool utilities that I wanted to point out. The latest is a neat parser for Userenv.log files, called Policy Reporter. He's also got a nifty ADM Template Editor to help simplify the process of creating ADM templates. Finally, He's got some GP Management software, called PolMan, with some nifty reporting and troubleshooting features. |
The SpecOps guys in Sweden have released a very cool free add-on to AD Users and Computers that let's you graphically and remotely refresh Group Policy on remote nodes as a right-click option in the UI. Its also let's you do a refresh across multiple machines and provides a cool graphical progress bar. Not bad for a free tool! |