What Policy/Procedures do you use for testing Group Policy changes before going into Production? We are building a test environment. So, I'm curious what other people do. For example: 1) I assume you have a central place to keep polices (including previous versions). 2) I assume some type of testing takes place, possibly some type of approvals? etc.. Thanks very much. P.S. Any copies of your procedures or documentation that you could share would be greatly appreciated.

I use the great utility that MS included with win2kserver called gpresult. Go to a command prompt and type gpresult >gp.txt This will pipe to a text file named gp.txt all group policies applied to a particular user. Look at the file with wordpad or winword and you can see what has taken precedance. Look in the windows help files for more info. Since I work in a grade school environment I really don't get a chance to formally test. Too many students do that for me.