Viewing the GPOs currently assigned to a computer
Once you start using Group Policy to distribute settings around to many client computers, it will quickly become important to be able to view the settings and policies that have or have not been applied to specific computers. Thankfully, there is a command built right into the Windows operating system to display this information. There are a number of different switches that can be used with this command, so let's explore some of the most common ones that I see used by server administrators.
Getting ready
We have a number of GPOs in our domain now; some are applied at the top level of the domain and some are only applied to specific OUs. We are going to run some commands on our Server 2016 web server in order to find out which GPOs have been applied to it and which have not.
How to do it…
Let's use the gpresult command to gather some information on policies applied to our server:
- Log in to the web server, or whatever client computer...
