Analyzing Group Policy using Group Policy Analytics Tool

Hi, everyone. Thanks for watching this

video. Hope you all are doing well today.

During this video, I will discuss and

demonstrate the Group Policy Analytics tool,

which is part of Microsoft Endpoint

Manager--or Microsoft Intune--and can help

organizations in planning the migration

of Windows management from

traditional Group Policy Objects to a

cloud-based MDM solution. Organizations

generally leverage Group Policy Objects

to configure settings on personal

computers or any other on-premise devices.

But these days,

many organizations are also

looking for some kind of cloud solution

to manage

their

their Windows 10 devices,

because users are no longer limited to

the organization's perimeter network. So,

Group Policy tools can help

organizations in analyzing on-premise

Group Policy Objects, which can further lead to planning

the migration strategy for Windows 10

management from Group Policies to a

cloud-based solution.

So, let's get into the demo now. And the

first thing we need to do is...

we export the Group Policy as an XML file.

Let's log in to the domain controller and

export a Group Policy as an XML file.

This is my domain controller, and

let's go to Group Policy Management.

And this is one of the policies--MD

Onboarding GPO. This is one of the policies

where I have made some changes.

So, let's export this policy as an XML file.

If we go to

Save Report,

then

choose the location--let's save it here

in the C drive. And

Save as type.

Change the Save as type from HTML to XML file.

So now we have an XML document for this. Let

me copy it onto my local system.

And

now, the second thing we need to do

is import this XML file into the

Group Policy Analytics tool. So let's go

to Microsoft Endpoint Manager.

If you go to Devices, you have an option

for Group Policy Analytics.

Now, let's import the settings XML file.

First,

choose the XML file.

Import has been completed. Let's close this.

So you can see there's 70% of the

settings that are supported by the MDM

solution--settings marked in

green. These settings can be

configured using your MDM solution. Now,

if you go to the reports

and

if you want to see the Group Policy

Analytics report,

you can click here and

you can just do a refresh.

It will show you the Readiness mark.

Ready for migration means there are

11 settings that are ready for

migration, and there are 12 settings

that are not supported.

And there are 23 settings

which are in total.

If you go to Reports,

then Group Policy Migration Readiness,

you can click on this report and

you can see that all these policies are

ready for migration.

This means you can configure these

policies using

the cloud-based MDM solution on

Windows 10 devices.

So, now this report section gives you

some idea that

these are the settings which are

available in the MDM solution. And

in case, If you plan to migrate

your

Windows management solution from

your Group Policy to your

cloud-based MDM solution, then these are the

settings that are available and can be

configured using the MDM solution.

So this concludes our demonstration of the

Group Policy Analytics tool, and

I hope this was informative for you.

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