Analyzing Group Policy using Group Policy Analytics Tool

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video. Hope you all are doing good today.

During this video, I will discuss and

demonstrate group policy analytics tool

which is part of Microsoft Endpoint

Manager or Microsoft Intune, and can help

organizations in planning the migration

of Windows 10 management from our

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 of the organizations are also

looking for some kind of cloud solutions

to manage

their

Windows 10 devices

because now users are not 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 look at into the demo now, and the

first thing what we need to do is we

have to export the group policy in XML

file.

Let's log into the domain controller and

export a group policy in XML file.

This is my domain controller and

let's go to

group policy management.

And this is one of the policy, MDE

Onboarding GPO. This is one of the policy

where I have done some changes.

So let's export this policy in 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 XML document for this. Let

me copy it onto my local system.

And

now, the second thing what we need to do

is to import this XML file in

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

and choose the XML file.

Import has been completed, let's close

this. So you can see that 70% of the

settings which are supported by MDM

solution. Settings which are marked as

green, these settings can be

configurable 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, it means there are

11 settings which are ready for

migration, and these are the 12 settings

are there which is not supported,

and there are 23 settings which

which are in total.

If you go to the reports,

then group policy migration readiness,

you can click on this report and

you can see this these all policies are

ready for migration.

It means you can configure these

policies using

the cloud-based MDM solution onto the

Windows 10 devices.

So now this report section give you a

some idea that

these are the settings which are

available in the MDM solution and if in

case if you plan to migrate

your

Windows 10 management solution from

your group policy to your

cloud-based MDM solution, then these are

settings which are available and can be

configurable using the MDM solution.

So this concludes our demonstration of

group policy analytics tool, and

I hope this will be informative for you.

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