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GPSI "GYPSY" VIEWER UTILITY
Within native tools, there is no way to quickly get an
at-a-glance view of all applications deployed via Group Policy Software Installation
(GPSI) policy
across a domain. This simple GUI utility lets you quickly view all applications
that have been published or assigned (or removed) using Group Policy,
within a domain. With the newest version, you can also print the list of
applications to a report or save it as a .csv file. The figure below shows what this
tool looks like:
The GPSIViewer utility will automatically try to resolve the AD domain that the
workstation running the tool belongs to. If it can not or you wish to connect to
a different domain, then you will be able to enter the domain name manually,
using either the LDAP distinguished name, as shown above, or the DNS name (e.g.
mycompany.com). Note that, when you remove a deployed package from a GPO, that
package definition is not actually removed from AD. This is because removed
packages may need to be de-installed from target machines and thus the package
is marked for removal. Using this mechanism, the next time the user or computer
that had installed the application processes the GPO, it knows to remove the
package. I have marked removed packages with Red to
indicate their state.
Requirements: For the 1.6 version
of "GYPSY", you need the .Net Framework 2.0 installed on the
machine where you run this utility from. The 1.0 version requires at least
.Net 1.1.
Release History
Version 1.6 (current): Version 1.6
adds the Date Created and Date Last Modified columns to the display and to
reporting.
Download:
GPSI "GYPSY" Viewer 1.6 -- 10.6KB
Version 1.5: The 1.5
version adds a few new features. For example, I added a column that lists
any transforms applied to the package. I also add "tool tips" to each row,
which lets you hover your mouse over a column that contains large amounts of
text, and see what the full contents of that text is without having to
expand the column. I also added the ability to print the list of apps to a
printer. Finally, I created a save to .csv option that lets you output the
list to a .csv file for easy import into Excel.
Download: GPSI
"GYPSY" Viewer 1.5 --
10.1KB
Version 1.0 (original): This is the
original version of the tool that allows you to view GPSI deployed apps.
Download: SIViewer
1.0 --
7.3KB
