Where are User Group Policies saved ?

[Zezima]

Hi,

 

Basicly, my question is... Where can I find the actual files of group policies. The Settings/config files? I want to know so that I restore(to a temp location) our group policy files from a month ago and then compare them to what we have now to look for differences.

 

 

this is why...

 

 

We are running on an RM CC4 network.

 

Within the management console we have two user policy groups, One called Staff and one called CustomStaff.

 

A few weeks ago I installed Google Chrome onto our network and with it, came some settings in our managment console so that we can set policies for google chrome.

 

A little while after that we had issues where users lost their Profiles desktop and got set up with a shared desktop

 

I had a thought that maybe when we installed Google Chrome package on the server that it reset some other policy settings with it

 

I was told that it's only possible for an RM chrome package to alter the Staff user policy, not CustomStaff... But i suspect that CustomStaff has changed.

 

So, i just want to check the policy settings from last month and see if they were different. IF they were, then I know it was probably the RM package that changed the settings.

 

Thanks anyone that can help

[halbaradkenafin]

They should be available on \\domain.tld, should be a folder called SYSVOL and they'll be in there, organised by GUID.

[Zezima]

They should be available on \\domain.tld, should be a folder called SYSVOL and they'll be in there, organised by GUID.

 

Thanks very much,

 

I found the files and managed to view the regsitry.pol file with a pol viewer..

 

Unfortunately the contents of the SYSVOL folder are not backed up for some odd reason :/

 

thanks anyway :

[Firefox]

For future note, you may consider installing Advanced Group Policy Management, this will then let you have version control over your GPO's and provide you an easy way to compare for differences etc.

[fairm010]

Thanks very much,

 

I found the files and managed to view the regsitry.pol file with a pol viewer..

 

Unfortunately the contents of the SYSVOL folder are not backed up for some odd reason :/

 

thanks anyway :

 

I so a System State Backup using Windows Server 2012's Backup facility, which backs up AD and GPO's I believe.