Viewing GPO Settings and Creating Reports

One of the great features of the GPMC is the ability to view GPO settings from within the window, and to save the settings to share with others as HTML files. To view the settings of a particular GPO, follow these steps:

1. Log on to a designated Windows Server 2012 administrative system.

2. Open the Group Policy Management Console.

3. Expand the forest and domain to expose the Group Policy Objects container and expand it.

4. Select the desired GPO in the tree pane and select the Settings tab in the right pane.

5. Browse the settings by expanding the sections using the Hide and Show hyperlinks.

6. To save the settings to an XML or HTML file, right-click the desired GPO in the left pane, and click Save ...

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