The Resultant Set of Policy information is available in a myriad of different ways, as we have already discovered. One additional way to get a quick bearing on what is going to be applied to a particular user or computer is by using Get-GPResultantSetOfPolicy inside PowerShell. This cmdlet can also generate some HTML or XML reports for you, but rather than containing information about the insides of the GPOs, these reports will show you RSOP data for the object specified.

As an example, let's query my Jordan user account and the LAPTOP1 computer account at the same time, to find out what is going to be applied when I log into that machine. You can use this command with separate -user or -computer switches as well, if you have the need to query only one or the other:

Get-GPResultantSetOfPolicy -user MyDomainJordan -computer LAPTOP1 -ReportType HTML -Path C:RSOP_ReportsJordan_LAPTOP1.html