The GPDBPA tool is a stand-alone program that an administrator can run from a Windows Server 2003-based system or from a Windows XP-based system. You can use the tool to do the following:
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Perform a proactive health check on the Group Policy environment to detect common configuration errors that frequently generate support incidents. |
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Collect diagnostic information and initial data from an environment, and then automate some analysis of that data. |
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Obtain a snapshot of the Group Policy configuration for archiving. This data may be a useful reference if a future problem occurs. |
To obtain the GPDBPA tool
To obtain the command-line version and the graphical user interface (GUI) version of the GPDBPA tool, download the .exe file from the following Microsoft download sites: