Enabling Group Policy Preferences Debug Logging using the RSAT

Group Policy preferences debug logging using RSAT

Group Policy preferences debug logging using RSAT — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 11:55:32 GMT

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re: Enabling Group Policy Preferences Debug Logging using the RSAT

edz314 — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:49:29 GMT

Great stuff from the Directory Services team. This is very helpful information. Sure you can find some of this information online (in rather dry form), but visiting this blog is a great way to stay focused on what's new and cool in Active Directory.

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re: Enabling Group Policy Preferences Debug Logging using the RSAT

pago — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 14:21:28 GMT

Can you explain to me why the default path is

%COMMONAPPDATA%\GroupPolicy\Preference\Trace

while for e.g. this History Files produced by GPP are stored within a "Microdoft-Subfolder":

%COMMONAPPDATA%\Microsoft\Group Policy\History

(but in turn missing the "Preferences" subfolder)

To me this is not consistent.

In general using a company named folder as "root" should be the preferred approach.

OK, I can change GPP log paths individually, but people like to chose the proposed default value...

re: Enabling Group Policy Preferences Debug Logging using the RSAT

NedPyle — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 17:14:18 GMT

Just because. When it comes to logging throughout the OS, you are going to see a lot of inconsistencies. That's because logging was not designed for you or me - it was designed for MS testers. Generally in a very quick and dirty fashion. In this case the logging just happened to get into the UI, which is pretty unusual in itself (I think it was like this in PolicyMaker, before MS even bought the company and developers that originally made this component), but there are no 'style guideliness' for logging. And once a default path is used, it really cannot ever be changed, as that will mess with too many people that assume paths will never change.

http://blogs.technet.com/askds/archive/2008/04/02/directory-services-debug-logging-primer.aspx <-- shows the inconsistencies to the Nth degree.

- Ned