Get-NoSettingsGPO.ps1
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Script
import-module grouppolicy
function HasNoSettings {
$cExtNodes = $xmldata.DocumentElement.SelectNodes($cQueryString, $XmlNameSpaceMgr)
foreach ($cExtNode in $cExtNodes) {
if ($cExtNode.HasChildNodes) {
return $false
}
}
$uExtNodes = $xmldata.DocumentElement.SelectNodes($uQueryString, $XmlNameSpaceMgr)
foreach ($uExtNode in $uExtNodes) {
if ($uExtNode.HasChildNodes) {
return $false
}
}
return $true
}
function configNamespace {
$script:xmlNameSpaceMgr = New-Object System.Xml.XmlNamespaceManager($xmldata.NameTable)
$xmlNameSpaceMgr.AddNamespace("", $xmlnsGpSettings)
$xmlNameSpaceMgr.AddNamespace("gp", $xmlnsGpSettings)
$xmlNameSpaceMgr.AddNamespace("xsi", $xmlnsSchemaInstance)
$xmlNameSpaceMgr.AddNamespace("xsd", $xmlnsSchema)
}
# Get the script path
$ScriptPath = { Split-Path $MyInvocation.ScriptName }
$ReferenceFile = $(&$ScriptPath) + "\NoSettingsGPO.csv"
$noSettingsGPOs = @()
$xmlnsGpSettings = "http://www.microsoft.com/GroupPolicy/Settings"
$xmlnsSchemaInstance = "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
$xmlnsSchema = "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
$cQueryString = "gp:Computer/gp:ExtensionData/gp:Extension"
$uQueryString = "gp:User/gp:ExtensionData/gp:Extension"
Get-GPO -All | ForEach-Object { $gpo = $_ ; $_ | Get-GPOReport -ReportType xml | ForEach-Object { $xmldata = [xml]$_ ; configNamespace ; If (HasNoSettings) { $noSettingsGPOs += $gpo } } }
if ($noSettingsGPOs.Count -eq 0) {
"No GPO's Without Settings Were Found"
}
else {
write-host $noSettingsGPOs.count"GPO's were found without settings:"
$noSettingsGPOs | Select-Object DisplayName, ID | Format-Table
$noSettingsGPOs | Select-Object DisplayName, ID, CreationTime, ModificationTime, GpoStatus, Description | Export-Csv -notype "$ReferenceFile" -Delimiter ';'
# Remove the quotes
(Get-Content "$ReferenceFile") | ForEach-Object { $_ -replace '"', "" } | out-file "$ReferenceFile" -Force -Encoding ascii
}
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