Monday, January 31, 2011

Searching for Group Policy Settings

if you work a lot with Group Policies Settings (GPO) you often need to search, simply given how many settings Windows does now offer.

Sometimes it’s easy as “Is there a setting for controlling feature X?”, but sometimes it’s just the other way around “There is registry setting Z active, which GPO settings is that?”.

There is no chance to do this with the default tools Microsoft offers, but fortunately they have create a web application that does allow you to do just that:

Group Policy Search

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