Application Delivery Management
Application Modernization & Connectivity
CyberRes
IT Operations Management
Today I pick up on my ramblings about the various things that challenge us in our daily routine in IT. Whilst I am a GroupWise geek I’m going to do something a little different again. Most environments that I work in push out policies in one form or another to the workstations. A common complaint I hear from the more senior engineers in charge of managing and deploying these polices is that the support technicians sitting at the end user’s workstation troubleshooting issues often claim that it’s the policies that are causing something to not work or the policies are not applying correctly.
To make troubleshooting a little easier and the policy application at a workstation level more visible I’ve written a little script that collects the Resultant Set of Policies directly at the workstation, creates a report, and sends it to the relevant senior engineer via email. Seeing is believing. To look directly at what is and what is not happening at a workstation level can prove valuable in troubleshooting potential issues with deployed policies.
Now the disclaimer – I am by NO means adept at writing scripts or code in any form or variety. Necessity is the mother of all inventions. This short PowerShell script was born out of the necessity to alleviate a major pain point experienced by my colleagues. Use this script entirely at your own risk. I wrote this script in ISE on Windows 7.
What the script does:
Here’s what you will need to do:
So here is what my script looks like:
I've also added the script in text format.
GW-RSOPv2
For my customers working in an Outlook/Exchange environment I have a different script that works directly with Outlook and Exchange without making use of a SMTP relay. If you need this alternative script then please let me know and I’ll publish that one too.
If just one person finds this useful then I consider this “Mission Accomplished”