Key Features:

• Runs on all of your Windows servers and desktops and collects information during each policy processing cycle (or optionally less frequent).
• Records detailed analysis of Group Policy processing, including success or failure, timings and errors, to either the local event log or centrally for later analysis.
• Provides Resultant Set of Policy data and optional validation of security and registry policy.
• Unique "Policy-as-Configured" Validation feature checks to ensure that policy settings that are supposed to be in place actually are.
• Fully configurable through Group Policy. Multiple levels of configuration allow for everything from maximum verbosity to only exceptions being logged.

Benefits:

If you are struggling to answer security and audit compliance questions about whether Group Policy is really working across your Windows systems, then the Group Policy Compliance Agent is your solution. The Agent not only tells you whether Group Policy is working, but it also provides a unique validation feature that doesn't just rely on Resultant Set of Policy (RSoP) to inform you as to whether policy is really being set as you expect. RSoP data, by its nature, does not guarantee that the underlying security or registry value has actually been set. Only our unique "Policy-as-Configured" Validation test can prove that the settings you need to have in place are really there. If not, exceptions are reported to the system's event logs for alerting or can be forwarded to a central server for analysis.

Details:

For more information and pricing, Contact sales@sdmsoftware.com.

Installation Requirements: Group Policy Compliance Agent is designed for installation on Microsoft® Windows® Vista and Microsoft® Windows® XP, Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 and Microsoft® Windows® Server 2008. You must have the .Net Framework 2.0 on the system where you install the product.