Microsoft® Windows® Group Policy Guide

Solving Implementation Problems

With more than 1600 GPO settings in a typical GPO and potentially hundreds of GPOs within your Active Directory infrastructure, and with WMI filters, security filtering, blocking GPOs, enforcing GPOs, and so much more, the implementation of GPOs is bound to fail sometimes. Even with the best GPO testing and integrity checks, certain settings and configurations will cause problems on the production network. This section explores some of the most common errors that can be made in GPOs during implementation.

Tracking Down Incorrect GPO Settings

With so many GPO settings to choose from, settings can easily become misconfigured. The ability to quickly track down the incorrect setting and in which GPO it resides is extremely ...