Microsoft® Windows® Group Policy Guide

Searching and Filtering Group Policy

One of the most challenging aspects of working with Group Policy is simply finding what you are looking for—whether it’s a set of policies, a particular Group Policy Object (GPO), or an object that Group Policy is affecting. Some administrators have told us that they’ve gone through every single GPO and every related policy setting in those GPOs and still haven’t found what they were looking for. You can save time and be much more effective by using one of several filtering techniques, including filtering policy settings to streamline the view, and searching for policy objects, links, and configuration settings for various conditions, values, and keywords.

Another type of filter you can apply to GPOs is a security ...