Documenting GPO's

[Greg]

Does anyone know of a way to print out the contents of the ADM files.
What I am trying to do is print out what all the options are for various GPO's so I can easily document it, by just checking off the options we configured.

Also allowing you to more easily look over the entire expanded tree of options and what they do to decide which ones to put in which policy.

[Larry Kwolek]

Hi Greg:

No I can't tell you how to print them out. I asked in my MCSE class and there doesn't seem to be a way to do it from inside windows 2000. The instructor said it my be built into the next version of netserver.

You basically have two options... get NetIQ, which is expensive but can document your GPOs... or

I made a word document of all of the default settings in a GPO, then I modify it for each GPO I create and keep a copy for my AD documentation. (Yeah it is 17 pages of sweat and lots of coffee but it has a place to document every setting.)

I can send it to you if you like.

regards

Larry Kwolek
RFE/RL, Inc.


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Greg at 10/23/2002 2:00:36 PM


Does anyone know of a way to print out the contents of the ADM files.
What I am trying to do is print out what all the options are for various GPO's so I can easily document it, by just checking off the options we configured.

Also allowing you to more easily look over the entire expanded tree of options and what they do to decide which ones to put in which policy.

[shovel204]

FAZAAM is or was available for a trial and it will print out GPO information on all settings that are set. It if memory serves does not print out the ones that are not set, but it offers a comprehensive print out.

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Larry Kwolek at 10/24/2002 7:45:31 AM

Hi Greg:

No I can't tell you how to print them out. I asked in my MCSE class and there doesn't seem to be a way to do it from inside windows 2000. The instructor said it my be built into the next version of netserver.

You basically have two options... get NetIQ, which is expensive but can document your GPOs... or

I made a word document of all of the default settings in a GPO, then I modify it for each GPO I create and keep a copy for my AD documentation. (Yeah it is 17 pages of sweat and lots of coffee but it has a place to document every setting.)

I can send it to you if you like.

regards

Larry Kwolek
RFE/RL, Inc.


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Greg at 10/23/2002 2:00:36 PM


Does anyone know of a way to print out the contents of the ADM files.
What I am trying to do is print out what all the options are for various GPO's so I can easily document it, by just checking off the options we configured.

Also allowing you to more easily look over the entire expanded tree of options and what they do to decide which ones to put in which policy.