Checking GPResult data from a remote machine

In keeping with our centralized administration mindset, let's cover an example of looking up this information remotely. Today, I am logged in to my DC1 server, but I am going to utilize GPResult with a few switches in order to query the Group Policy data that is sitting on my LAPTOP1 workstation. I also want it to display GPO information for my primary user account on that system, which is called Jordan. Here is a command that will tell GPResult to reach out to LAPTOP1 and pull not only its computer information, but also the information related to the user Jordan:

GPResult /s LAPTOP1 /user JORDAN /r > JordanLaptop1.txt

As you can see, I appended yet one more way to send the resultant data out ...

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