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Win7 Reskit > Part 3: Desktop Management > Chapter 14: Managing the Desktop Environment

What's New: Group Policy

See http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd367853.aspx

Frequently Asked Questions: Group Policy

Q-1. How can I print a list of all the GPOs and their corresponding settings?

A-1. Here are two ways you can do this:

1. Using the GetReportsForAllGPOs.wsf script
2. Using Windows PowerShell as follows:

Get-GPOReport –All –ReportType Html –domain fqdnDomainName –Path c:\reports\allreports.html

Additional Resources: Group Policy Preferences

The following posts on the Group Policy Team Blog provide useful tips for managing your environment using Group Policy Preferences:

• GP Preferences Will Reduce Logon Scripts : Mapping Drives
• Group Policy Preferences: Deploy Printer Settings
• Passwords in Group Policy Preferences (updated)
• Environment Variables in GP Preferences
• GP Preferences: Add a new printer, set as default
• Security Filtering, WMI Filtering, and Item-level Targeting in Group Policy Preferences
• Migration Tables do not work with Group Policy Preferences
• Configuring a Power Plan with Group Policy Preferences (by Alan Burchill)
• Managing Power with Group Policy Preferences: TechEd Online Video
• GP Policy vs. Preference vs. GP preferences (good explanation of how Group Policy preference settings differ from Group Policy policy settings)

Additional Resources: Managing Group Policy using PowerShell

The Group Policy Team Blog has a terrific script called SearchGPOsForSetting.ps1 that can be used to search all GPOs and ADMXs for a specified setting, see this post and the following one for details. You can download the script here.

Other posts on the Group Policy Team Blog about managing Group Policy using PowerShell include the following:

• PowerShell Script: Backup all GPOs that have been modified this month
• Set a registry key value from the command line using Group Policy PowerShell cmdlets
• PowerShell Script with GP cmdlets: Registry setting, Link
• Introduction to Windows PowerShell Cmdlets in Windows 7

Also check out this video on TechNet which demonstrates some of the ways you can use PowerShell to query and make changes to Group Policy registry settings.

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