We know that a nice HTML or XML report can be generated for each GPO from inside GPMC, simply by right-clicking on the GPO. Is there a way to get that same report via PowerShell? Of course! Here is a command to generate the HTML report from MyNewGPO:

Get-GPOReport -Name MyNewGPO -ReportType HTML -Path C:GPO_ReportsMyNewGPO.html

Looking inside the C:GPO_Reports folder on my workstation, I can see and double-click on this new HTML report to view information about MyNewGPO inside a browser window:

Now, what if we combine what we know about Get-GPOReport with our previous examples of the Get-GPO cmdlet? Would it perhaps be possible to generate a GPO report of all GPOs that exist in my environment? Sure enough, that is also easily done by adding one simple switch to Get-GPOReport, as seen here:

Get-GPOReport -ALL -ReportType HTML -Path C:GPO_ReportsAllGPOs.html

What a quick and easy way to document everything about your Group Policy objects, with one simple PowerShell command!