Filtering by settings that have been modified

Often, you will find yourself with a task to modify a GPO, only to put off this simple, little task for days because you do not feel like poking through all of the available Group Policy settings in order to find the setting that needs to be adjusted. Well, procrastinate no more! There is a super-simple way to filter GPME so that it only displays the settings that have already been modified inside your GPO.

Pick any GPO from your environment, and Edit that guy in order to open GPME. Then, right-click on Administrative Templates (yes, once again it is unfortunate that these filtering options only exist for Administrative Templates), and choose Filter Options....

Only one simple change is needed ...

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