Notes from the Field: GPO vs Local Policies

Problem: An engineer was claiming that a certain audit policy was not applying to his servers.

Findings: The engineer was refering to the Local Group Policy Editor (GPEdit)

Resolution: When checking computer GPO settings always perform a Group Policy Results command.

How to: Launch CMD gpresult /h C:\temp\result.html /scope computer

As you may know Local Policies cannot be overwritten by Domain Policy