Mastering Active Directory

Resultant Set of Policy (RSoP)

In a system, RSoP can be used to extract details about the group policies that are already applied and also the policy settings that are planned to be applied. It also helps us determine which is the winning policy and in which order the policies have been applied.

RSoP has two modes. In planning mode, we can simulate the effect of policy settings that we like to apply to a computer and user. In logging mode, it reports existing policy settings for a computer and the user that is currently logged on.

RSoP and the command-line based tool GPRESULT both do the same work. However, after Vista, Microsoft recommended using GPRESULT instated of RSoP.msc as it doesn't show all the Group Policy settings. ;For example, ...