Friday, January 30, 2015

What Are the Group Policy & Gpotool.exe

What Are the Group Policy & Gpotool.exe

Group Policy has two parts; GPC and GPT. GPC is called Group Policy Container and GPT is called Group Policy Template. The first one is stored in Active Directory and later is stored in SYSVOL share.

The GPC is stored at the following path in the Active Directory:

DomainName.Com\System\Policies\{FGR32-2F244.....}

The GPT is stored at:

SYSVOL\DomainName.Com\SYSVOL\Policies\{FGR32-2F244.....}







C:\>Gpotool.exe

1. Validating DCs...

2. Available DCs:

3. DC1.DomainName.Com

4. DC2.DomainName.Com

5. Searching for policies...

6. Found 2 policies

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7. Policy {GUID}

8. OK
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9. Policy {GUID}

10. Version Mismatch: DS Version (23), SYSVOL Version (24)
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