9.11. Listing the Links for GPO

Problem

You want to list all of the links for a particular GPO.

Solution

Using a graphical user interface

  1. Open the GPMC snap-in.

  2. In the left pane, expand the Forest container, expand the Domains container, browse to the domain of the target GPO, and expand the Group Policy Objects container.

  3. Click on the GPO you want to view the links for.

  4. In the right pane, the defined links for the GPO will be listed under Links.

Using a command-line interface

> dumpgpoinfo.wsf "<GPOName>"

Using VBScript

' This code lists all the sites, OUs, and domains a GPO is linked to.
' ------ SCRIPT CONFIGURATION ------
strGPO      = "<GPOName>"        ' e.g. SalesGPO
strForest   = "<ForestName>"     ' e.g. rallencorp.com
strDomain   = "<DomainDNSName>" ' e.g. rallencorp.com ' ------ END CONFIGURATION --------- set objGPM = CreateObject("GPMgmt.GPM") set objGPMConstants = objGPM.GetConstants( ) ' Initialize the Domain object set objGPMDomain = objGPM.GetDomain(strDomain, "", objGPMConstants.UseAnyDC) ' Initialize the Sites Container object set objGPMSitesContainer = objGPM.GetSitesContainer(strForest, _ strDomain, "", objGPMConstants.UseAnyDC) ' Find the specified GPO set objGPMSearchCriteria = objGPM.CreateSearchCriteria objGPMSearchCriteria.Add objGPMConstants.SearchPropertyGPODisplayName, _ objGPMConstants.SearchOpEquals, cstr(strGPO) set objGPOList = objGPMDomain.SearchGPOs(objGPMSearchCriteria) if objGPOList.Count = 0 then WScript.Echo "Did not find GPO: " & strGPO WScript.Echo "Exiting." WScript.Quit ...

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