Chapter 16. Group Policy Command-Line Tools

This chapter provides information and commands concerning the following topics:

Viewing Group Policy settings with gpresult

Refreshing Group Policy settings with gpupdate

Tip

You should be familiar with gpresult and gpupdate commands when preparing for the 70-640 exam.

Viewing Group Policy Settings with gpresult

You can view current Group Policy settings with the gpresult command. The syntax is

gpresult [switches]

Common switches are shown in the following table.

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Tip

You can output the settings ...

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