Well, in keeping with our current tradition of delivering PowerShell-based solutions for Group Policy Management, SDM Software has released its latest product–the Group Policy Health Cmdlet. This cmdlet basically lets you get quick and detailed Group Policy processing status across one or more machines within your enterprise. Its pretty cool in that you can feed it either a machine name, an OU name or a domain name and it will resolve all computer objects in those containers, and query each one, returning results either as an object (shown in the screenshot below) or as an XML document that you can save or manipulate using PowerShell’s built-in XML capabilities. You can take a video tour of the product here, which shows off some of its features.
And while the product is not free, you can download a trial copy and use it for up to 10 queries. After that, to buy a copy is, well, cheap if you ask me 
. Anyway, check it out and let us know what you think!
Tags:
Group Policy, PowerShell, SDM Software, Group Policy Health
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About the Author:
Darren Mar-Elia is CTO & Founder of SDM Software, Inc. Darren has over 25 years of IT and Software experience in the Microsoft technology area, including serving as a Director in Infrastructure at Charles Schwab, CTO of Windows Management Solutions at Quest Software, and Sr. Director of Product Engineering at DesktopStandard. He has been a Microsoft MVP in Group Policy technology for the last 6 years and has written and spoken on Active Directory, Group Policy and PowerShell topics frequently over the years. He maintains the popular Group Policy resource web site at www.gpoguy.com and has been a contributing editor for Windows IT Pro Magazine since 1997. He has written and contributed to twelve books on Windows. Darren also speaks frequently at conferences on Windows infrastructure topics.