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Troubleshooting Group Policy

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Troubleshooting Group Policy

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- In this section, we're going to be talking about troubleshooting group policy. So if group policy is not applying the way you think it should, probably the first thing you should do is reboot, because some settings are only applied, when the machine first boots up. But after a reboot, if you're still not getting what you expected, Microsoft has a command line tool, that will help us see which policies are being applied, and the successes and failures of those settings. So, I open a command prompt by going to the start menu, typing in CMD, and that'll give me the option to go to a command prompt. And then I'm going to run a tool called gpresult. After that you want to put a slash H, telling us that we would like the report in HTML format, and I'll need to include a file name also, and this will be the file name used for the report. So I'll call mine, gpesult.HTML. And then I press enter and fairly quickly you should get back to a command prompt. At that point you can type in DIR and…

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