Group policy modelling allows you to see what the effective policy is for a user or computer.
When multiple policies at different levels are applied.
Group policy modelling allows you to simulate what would happen on the different circumstances if objects
were moved around.
This can often be useful if you have a large GPO structure where enforced and block policy inheritance
have been used a loss and the end result has become somewhat confusing.
To access this feature right click on group policy modelling on the left hand side of the screen and
then click on group policy modelling wizards.
Once the wizard appears on screen click next.
You will then get the option to choose a domain controller.
In most cases the default settings are fine here so click next to continue.
You'll then be asked to select a user under your computer depending on the situation you wish to simulate.
For our example let's choose the generally Miller user accounts and then click knacks.
You'll then see a list of options.
These are slow network connection loop but processing and size.
If your company has a slow network you may want to choose a slow network connection option in the real
world a slow network would stop certain group policy settings from applying in order to save network
bandwidth.
This is usually scripts and software installations.
The loop back processing option is usually used for kiosk machines.
For example those machines that have limited functions or have specific security requirements.
The site option allows you to simulate what would happen policy wise if the user was moved to another
site.
For our example we'll be using the default options here.
So we'll click Next This displays options that allow you to simulate changes to the user or computer
location depending on which option you selected earlier.
Clicking next here allows you to simulate changes to security groups.
Next again we've got to look through my filters next against the simulation process and then finally
the results can be viewed on screen by clicking on finish.
Now that we've gone over group policy modelling let's move onto the GPL D GP results and our SOP commands
and how they can be used to force updates and diagnose and resolve problems with group policy.