Group Policy: Fundamentals, Security, and Troubleshooting

2.3. Performing RSoP Calculations with the GPMC

In Chapter 1, we charted out a fictitious organization's GPO structure on paper. We looked and saw when various GPOs were going to apply to various user and computers. Charting out the RSoP (Resultant Set of Policy) for users and computers on paper is a handy skill for basic understanding of GPO organization and flow, but in the real world, you'll need a tool that can help you actually figure out what's going on at your client desktops.

The GPMC has a handy feature to show us all the GPOs that are going to apply for the users and computers at a specific level in Active Directory. In Figure 2.20, when you click the Human Resources Users OU and then click the Group Policy Inheritance tab, you can ...