Get-GPPermission

Syntax

Get-GPPermission
   -Guid <Guid>
   [-TargetName <String>]
   [-TargetType <PermissionTrusteeType>]
   [-DomainName <String>]
   [-Server <String>]
   [-All]
   [<CommonParameters>]

Get-GPPermission
   [-Name] <String>
   [-TargetName <String>]
   [-TargetType <PermissionTrusteeType>]
   [-DomainName <String>]
   [-Server <String>]
   [-All]
   [<CommonParameters>]

Description

The Get-GPPermission cmdlet gets the permission level for one or more security principals on the specified Group Policy Object (GPO). You can use the TargetName and TargetType parameters to specify a user, security group, or computer for which to get the permission level. You can use the All parameter to get the permission level for each security principal that includes: user, security group, or computer. This only works for a user, security group, or computer that has permissions on the GPO. You can specify the GPO by its display name or by its GUID.

Examples

Example 1: Get the permission level for group on the specified GPO

PS C:\> Get-GPPermission -Name "TestGpo" -TargetName "Domain Users" -TargetType Group 
Trustee         : Domain Users 

TrusteeType     : Group 

PermissionLevel : GpoRead 

Inherited       : False

This command gets the permission level for the Domain Users group on the GPO named TestGpo.

Example 2: Get the permission level for group on the specified GPO with the specified GUID

PS C:\> Get-GPPermission -Domain "Sales.Contoso.com" -Server "DC1" -GUID fa4a9473-6e2a-4b87-ab78-175e68d97bde -TargetName "Domain Admins" -TargetType Group

This command gets the permission level for the Domain Admins group on the GPO with the GUID fa4a9473-6e2a-4b78-175e68d97bde in the Sales.Contoso.com domain. The DC1.sales.contoso.com domain controller is contacted to complete the operation.

If the domain of the user that is running the session (or, for startup and shutdown scripts, the computer) is different from the sales.contoso.com domain, a trust must exist between the two domains, or the command fails.

Example 3: Get the permission level for all security principals on the specified GPO

PS C:\> Get-GPPermission -Name "TestGPO" -All 

Trustee     : Authenticated Users 
TrusteeType : WellKnownGroup 
Permission  : GpoApply 
Inherited   : False 

Trustee     : Domain Admins 
TrusteeType : Group 
Permission  : GpoEditDeleteModifySecurity 
Inherited   : False 

Trustee     : Enterprise Admins 
TrusteeType : Group 
Permission  : GpoEditDeleteModifySecurity 
Inherited   : False 

Trustee     : ENTERPRISE DOMAIN CONTROLLERS 
TrusteeType : WellKnownGroup 
Permission  : GpoRead 
Inherited   : False 

Trustee     : SYSTEM 
TrusteeType : WellKnownGroup 
Permission  : GpoEditDeleteModifySecurity 
Inherited   : False

This command gets the permission level for each security principal that has permissions on the GPO named TestGPO.

Example 4: Get the display name of each GPO for a specific permissions

PS C:\> Get-GPO -All | foreach-object { if($_ | Get-GPPermission -TargetName "contoso\Domain Admins" -TargetType Group -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue) {$_.DisplayName}} 

Default Domain Policy 
TestGPO-1 
TestGPO-2 Default Domain Controllers Policy 
Internet Security 
TestGPO

This command lists the display name of each GPO (in the domain) on which the specified security principal has permissions.

First, Get-GPO is used to retrieve all the GPOs in the domain (Get-GPO -All). Then, the collection is piped into the foreach-object command. As each GPO is evaluated, it is piped into Get-GPPermissions. If a permission level is returned, the DisplayName property of the GPO is printed ($_.DisplayName).

Note: The ErrorAction parameter is set to SilentlyContinue for Get-GPPermissions. This is because a non-terminating error occurs if the specified security principal does not have permissions on the GPO. Specifying the ErrorAction as SilentlyContinue prevents the error messages from being printed for GPOS on which the security principal does not have permissions. For more information about the ErrorAction parameter, see about_CommonParameters.

Parameters

-All

-DomainName

-Guid

-Name

-Server

-TargetName

-TargetType

Inputs

Microsoft.GroupPolicy.Gpo

You can pipe a GPO to this cmdlet for which to get the permission level. Collections that contain GPOs from different domains are not supported.

Outputs

This cmdlet returns an object that represents permissions for the specified security principal (user, group, or computer) on the GPO.

Notes

• You can use the DomainName parameter to explicitly specify the domain for this cmdlet.

  If you do not explicitly specify the domain, the cmdlet uses the default domain. The default domain is the domain that is used to access network resources by the security context under which the current session is running. This domain is typically the domain of the user that is running the session. For example, the domain of the user who started the session by opening Windows PowerShell or the domain of a user that is specified in a runas command. However, computer startup and shutdown scripts run under the context of the LocalSystem account. The LocalSystem account is a built-in local account, and it accesses network resources under the context of the computer account. Therefore, when this cmdlet is run from a startup or shutdown script, the default domain is the domain to which the computer is joined.

Related Links

• Set-GPPermission