Active Directory/Group Policy Cheatsheet

Introduction

I always need to lookup Group Policy/Active Directory commands, I just don't touch it enough - which might be by design....

Get a User's/Workstation's Effective Policy

gpresult /h "$(pwd)\gpo-report.html"

# And open the report in the default browser.
Invoke-Item "$(pwd)\gpo-report.html"

• /h "html report", generate an HTML report.

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Force Replication between All sites/domain Controllers

repadmin /syncall /d /e

• /d "distinguished name", forces displaying domain controllers by their distinguished name instead their useless GUID.
• /e "everything", forces replication between all sites.

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