When creating or troubleshooting a group policy it's often important to be able to resolve any problems
as quickly as possible.
One great way to do this is through the use of some come online tools.
The first of these tools is GP update.
This is normally used when a group policy has been changed and needs to be updated quickly.
You can use this command to update user policies computer policies or both at the same time to open
a command prompt dialog box.
Press the Windows key and act bombs on your keyboard at the same time and click on command prompt admin
to update just the user policy type GP update forward slash target coal on user space forward slash
force to update just the computer policy type GPO date forward slash target colon computer space forward
slash force to update both policies at the same time.
This is the most commonly used command simply type GP update space forward slash force.
Once you have entered the relevant Command press and sets her on it some policies may need you to walk
off before they can be applied.
If this is the case.
Select yes when prompted to do so.
Next is the GP resource command.
This allows you to see which group policies are applied to a user or computer at any one time.
You run this command open a command prompt window and type GP result space forward slash are and then
press enter you will then see the resultant set of policy also known as our SOP data for the user and
computer policies for the machine.
Finally another useful command is our SOPs base forward slash are the main difference between this and
GP update being that our SoC forwards our show displays the data in much the same way as when you configure
a group policy using the group policy management console.
When you run the R slots at our command a dialog box will appear on screen with the current user and
computer selected as the default search query to run this feature with a different user and your computer
right click on our slot at the top of the screen and then click on change query the change query dialog
box will then appear on screen select the relevant computer and then click on Next on the screen select
the relevant user and then click on Next again click on Next again after this amend click on finish
the results for your query will then appear on screen.
If you browse through the different options you'll see that it's similar to configuring a group policy
but in this case it will only show the options that are currently applied to the user until the computer
in question.
Now that we've gone over some useful command line tools let's move onto the next part of the course.
The basics of group policy preferences.