Mastering Windows Group Policy

Everyday command-line tools

When working with Group Policy, it is very common to find yourself inside a Command Prompt or PowerShell window, throwing some simple commands at servers and workstations in order to test out settings, push settings into place, or verify that Group Policy settings have been applied successfully. We will save the PowerShell-specific cmdlets for later in the book, and here discuss a few commands that can be run from either command-line interface.