Viewing information about a GPO

Information about the GPOs themselves is visible inside the Details tab of GPMC. This same information is also available by using the Get-GPO cmdlet in PowerShell. In the following screenshot, I have issued a simple Get-GPO MyNewGPO command which displays for me the same information that would be present if we opened GPMC and visited the Details tab of MyNewGPO:

While it's cool to be able to query this information inside PowerShell, it becomes powerful when you realize that you can just as easily pull this same information for ALL of the GPOs in your domain:

Get-GPO -ALL

This command presents me with pages and ...

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