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Group Policy/Group Preferences reporting tool, cloning Group Policies

I am looking for a Group Policy/Group Preferences reporting tool that could either or both of the following:

1) Check a Group Policy/Group Preferences structure and compare it with the default for that system, in particular Windows 2008 R2. The situation would be that there have been Group Policies created/modified on a server and I would like to see all the settings that are not default.

2) Compare two servers for differences in Group Policy. In this situation I would compare the Group Policy/Preferences settings of two different servers to see what the differences are.

3) I would also like to know the best way to clone Group Policies/Preferences from one system to another e.g. I have a system where all the Group Policies/Preferences are to my liking and want to then apply them to another system.

Again the environment I am most interested in is Windows 2008 R2.
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These are interesting products but from my reading they are 'monitoring' products, they track changes.  They do not answer the questions I asked from what I have read about them as I am not looking to track changes realtime but what has already transpired.. Perhaps if you have worked with them you can tell me whether they deal with the 3 questions that I have copied again below.

1) Check a Group Policy/Group Preferences structure and compare it with the default for that system, in particular Windows 2008 R2. The situation would be that there have been Group Policies created/modified on a server and I would like to see all the settings that are not default.

2) Compare two servers for differences in Group Policy. In this situation I would compare the Group Policy/Preferences settings of two different servers to see what the differences are.

3) I would also like to know the best way to clone Group Policies/Preferences from one system to another e.g. I have a system where all the Group Policies/Preferences are to my liking and want to then apply them to another system.


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Great info/answer. Super clear and good tricks.  Thanks a lot.
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pwindell:

I am going to  post another question that I would like you to take a crack at if you have time. I just have to formulate the words.  
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We don't see the "sender" until after going into the message.  If I don't know the subject and the exact forum it is in I may never see it.
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Windows Server 2008

Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2, based on the Microsoft Vista codebase, is the last 32-bit server operating system released by Microsoft. It has a number of versions, including including Foundation, Standard, Enterprise, Datacenter, Web, HPC Server, Itanium and Storage; new features included server core installation and Hyper-V.

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