The Generating Rsop Queries With The Advanced System Information-policy Tool

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The Advanced System Information—Policy tool enables you to create an MCITP: Enterprise Administrator query and view the results in an HTML report that appears in the Help And Support Center window. This report can be printed, and it can be saved to an .htm file. Although this report does not contain as much information as the results of RSoP queries generated with the Resultant Set Of Policy Wizard or the Gpresult command-line tool, it can be run easily by novice users who have RSoP authority. The results of the Advanced System Information-Policy tool RSoP query are obtained from RSoP Logging mode for the currently logged on user on the computer on which the query is performed. The report generated displays policy-related information for the following categories:
Computer name, associated domain, and current site
User name and associated domain
Applied GPOs for the computer and user
Security group memberships for the computer and user
Microsoft Internet Explorer settings
Scripts: logon, logoff, startup, shutdown
Security settings
Programs ...
... installed
Folder redirection
Registry settings
To create and display an MCITP: Server Administrator RSoP query with the Advanced System Information—Policy tool, complete the following steps:
1.Click Start, and then click Help And Support.
2.Under Support Tasks, click Tools.
3.In the Tools pane, under Help And Support Center Tools, click Advanced System Information.
Under Advanced System Information, click View Group Policy Settings Applied. In Figure 11-15, the Advanced System Information-Policy tool has been used to display RSoP query computer information for Administrator on Serverl. You can scroll to the results that you want to view and click the arrow in the upper-right corner of a category to hide details.
The Resultant Set Of Policy Wizard uses existing GPO settings to report the effects of GPOs on users and computers and can simulate the effects of planned GPOs.
The wizard's Logging mode reports the existing GPO settings for a user or computer. Its Planning mode simulates the GPO settings that a user and computer
might receive, and it enables you to change the simulation.
The Advanced System Information-Policy tool enables you to create an free Microsoft practice tests RSoP query and view the results in an HTML report that appears in the Help And Support Center window.