Group Policy User Guide

Overview

This DEX Pack Lite shows group policy usage and compliance. View the number of group policies in your environment as well as how many systems are or are not using different group policies.

Group Policy is a feature of the Microsoft Windows NT family of operating systems that controls the working environment of user accounts and computer accounts. It provides centralized management and configuration of operating systems, applications, and users' settings in an Active Directory environment.

The primary purpose of Group Policy is to apply policy settings to computers and users in an Active Directory domain to enable IT administrators to automate one-to-many management of users and computers. This simplifies administrative tasks and reduces IT costs.

GPO Family Summary

This grid displays the GPO (Group Policy Object) families used by your enterprise. You can narrow down the list of GPOs by typing a keyword into the GPO Family text field. You can also see the number of systems that are in the GPO and how many are not in the GPO.

Select a GPO family from the list to populate the System Details (Selected GPO) grid.

System Details (Selected GPO)

This grid displays the system names in the selected GPO. Use the Show drop-down menu to display system names that are in the GPO (highlighted in green), or to view the systems that are not in the GPO (highlighted in red). Use the System Search text field to locate a specific system.