[gptalk] Re: new GPO Compare product
- From: "Nelson, Jamie" <Jamie.Nelson@xxxxxxx>
- To: <gptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 17:06:13 -0600
Darren's the man! I was a big proponent of this as well, and I think it
is awesome that Darren and his company are so responsive to the GP
community.
Keep up the good work Darren!
Jamie Nelson | Operations Consultant | BI&T Infrastructure-Intel | Devon
Energy Corporation | Work: 405.552.8054 | Mobile: 405.200.8088 |
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From: gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Darren Mar-Elia
Sent: Monday, November 24, 2008 3:19 PM
To: gptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [gptalk] Re: new GPO Compare product
Good feedback Jerry! We're looking at the next version supporting a CLI
so that you can essentially do what you want-compare a single GPO
against others and report on those differences-your request is a
variation on that theme that we could support fairly easily.
Thanks again,
Darren
From: gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Cruz, Jerome L
Sent: Monday, November 24, 2008 1:09 PM
To: gptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [gptalk] Re: new GPO Compare product
Will also useful for maintaining consistency between 'supposedly
identical' GPOs in different forests/domains. Up till now, I've have
been using the "Beyond Compare" tool (no specific recommendation, it's
just what we use). That effort requires:
* Opening the GPMC
* Saving HTML reports of GPOs I want to compare
* Comparing the two in Beyond Compare (reads the HMTL in Text
mode)
* Manually scanning for differences (manually ignoring things
like date report run, etc.)
Tedious, eh? But actually faster in some case for GPOS or RSoP reports
with many settings. That's why I'll be looking at this one. What I'd
"really" like is the ability to compare a "baseline" GPO against many
other GPOs (e.g. choose one GPO as a baseline, then choose same GPO in
many other domains at the same time...like for 8 child domains.. choose
one and compare to 7 others). Have never found anything to support
something like that.
Jerry Cruz | Group Policies Product Manager | Windows Infrastructure
Architecture | Boeing IT
From: gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Andrew McHale
Sent: Monday, November 24, 2008 7:48 AM
To: gptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [gptalk] Re: new GPO Compare product
Hi Darren,
Thanks for clearing this up. I guessed it might have been for larger
installations than my 20 or so GPO's ;)
I find a sensible naming structure and keeping settings as granular as
possible (not bunching a load of settings into the Default Domain
Policy) makes it easy enough to compare.
13,000 GPO's though! Now THAT is a full time job!
Andrew
P.S. Thanks for sharing your resolution with us Shane, it's one more for
the mental FAQ list ;)
From: Darren Mar-Elia [mailto:darren@xxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 24 November 2008 14:48
To: gptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [gptalk] Re: new GPO Compare product
Good questions. In many shops, esp. larger ones, folks might have lots
of GPOs that are only different by virtue of a couple of settings. For
example, I was working with a customer recently who had 13,000 GPOs!
They needed to know if some of those had settings that were different
than the "baseline". In that case, having a tool like this could have
come in handy (although in that case, they probably needed something
that was a bit more automated).
Darren
From: gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Andrew McHale
Sent: Monday, November 24, 2008 1:42 AM
To: gptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [gptalk] Re: new GPO Compare product
Hi Darren,
As I'm new to GP I'm intrigued by the purpose of this tool when you
state "quickly spot inconsistencies across GPOs"
Could you give an example of when you'd want to compare GPO's for
inconsistencies? I thought the concept of multiple GPO's was to be
different, with each one providing a different type of policy, that you
can apply to different groups of individuals/assets depending on the
needs.
Immediately the only time I can think you'd want to compare GPO's for
inconsistencies is when you are recreating one due to corruption or
major version change, or if you're looking for conflicting GPO's which
set opposite values for the same policy.
Thanks
Andrew
P.S. Sorry if you excitedly opened this email expecting your first batch
of feedback ;)
From: Darren Mar-Elia [mailto:darren@xxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 21 November 2008 21:04
To: gptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [gptalk] new GPO Compare product
Hey Folks-
Just wanted to let everyone know that today we shipped our new GPO
Compare product (www.sdmsoftware.com/group_policy_compare). This is
something that many folks have asked for-a really nice standalone way to
quickly spot inconsistencies across GPOs. If you have interest, check it
out and let me know what you think! I'm all ears for feedback and
already have some great ideas for the next version.
Thanks!
Darren
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