Group Policy: Fundamentals, Security, and Troubleshooting

2.8. Final Thoughts

While using the GPMC throughout this chapter, you ran queries and created several reports. What you possibly didn't know is that all that time you were creating HTML reports you can use to document your environment.

Back when you were first exploring a GPO's settings (see the screen shot in the section "Common Procedures with the GPMC" earlier in the chapter) and when you were creating RSoP reports (that is, Figures 2.23 and 2.24 and what would result after Figure 2.26), you were really generating HTML reports. Anytime you create those reports, you can right-click anywhere in the report and choose Save Report. Since these are standard HTML, you have an incredibly easy way to document just about every aspect of your Group ...