See what GPO is applied to your machine and user

Posted on by Andy

hello,

to see which GPO is apploed to your machine/user, you can use following commands inside the terminal:

  • check your GPO applied for your user:

    # gpresult /scope user /r
  • check the applied GPO for the machine:

    # gpresult /scope computer /r

Please note that you can get an "access denied." message when querying the machine GPO. Use a terminal with elevated rights to do this. E.g. execute the command-line as admin.

To view the applied values in your GUI you can use the tool rsop.msc

Major upgrades with FreeBSD

Posted on by Andy

Here a a small summary of all invoked FreeBSD commands if you want to upgrade from let's say 11.0 to 11.1. All this info can also be found in the FreeBSD handbook.

First update your current version to the latest packages and reboot: 

# freebsd-update fetch install
# pkg upgrade (command for binary packages)
# portmaster -a (command for installed ports, WARNING: see below)
# reboot

Warning for portmaster: portmaster will recompile also your binary packages if the port version is newer!

Now let's start the upgrade process: 

# freebsd-update -r 11.1-RELEASE upgrade (replace 11.1-RELEASE with the upgrade version you want)
# freebsd-update install
# reboot
# freebsd-update install
# pkg-static upgrade -f (command for binary packages)
# portmaster -af (command for ports. WARNING: see above)
# freebsd-update install
# reboot

That's it. upgraded version up and running.