group policy diagnostic best practice

Group Policy Diagnostic Best Practice Analyzer

Microsoft just released a free tool to search for errors in Group

Policy configuration - totally new and cool tool in the Best Practice

Analyzer (BPA) series.

Download here:

GPDBPA for Windows XP

GPDBPA for Windows XP x64 Edition

GPDBPA for Windows Server 2003

GPDBPA for Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition

Read more here:

Microsoft KB 940122 article: "How to use the Microsoft Group Policy

Diagnostic Best Practice Analyzer (GPDBPA) tool to collect and to

analyze data"

Quote from KB article:

You can use the Microsoft Group Policy Diagnostic Best Practice

Analyzer (GPDBPA) tool to collect data about an environment's Group

Policy configuration. For example, you can use this tool to analyze a

Group Policy configuration for the following purposes:

o To search for common configuration errors

o To discover and to diagnose problems

o To collect data for archiving

The account that you use to run the tool must have the appropriate

permissions to access both the Active Directory database on an

environment's domain controllers and the SYSVOL file structure that is

maintained on those domain controllers. Additionally, the account must

have local Administrator permissions on the Group Policy client.

There are two additional prerequisites for using the GPDBPA tool:

o The Microsoft .NET Framework version 1.1 or a later version must be

installed on the computer on which the GPDBPA tool is installed.

o The Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) service must be running

on the environment's domain controllers.

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