Viewing the GPOs currently assigned to a computer

Once you start using Group Policy to distribute settings 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 that can be used 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, while some are only applied to specific OUs. We are going to run some commands on our Windows 10 client 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 the policies that have been applied to our server...