When troubleshooting group policies I use GPResult and RSOP.msc a LOT! Since we started deploying Windows 7 I've been having the worst time trying to use these utilities. Normally when a user is not getting policies I can just run rsop.msc and see if there is any error information as well as which policies have and have not applied. In Windows 7 I am prompted for an Admin password when I run rsop. Well that would be fine but now RSOP attempts to gather data for the administrator; I need to see the data for the logged on user. The only way I've been able to work around this so far is to add the user to the local admin group then I can run rsop and gpresult. When I'm done I have to remove them from the admin group. This seems silly to me. Can anyone tell me how to see RSOP and GPResult data as the USER instead of the Admin. Also please do not chime in telling me to run rsop in planning mode as that only tells me what is supposed to happen, not what is actually happening on the system.

Hi, Base on my test and research, there’s impossible to use RSOP.msc with user, and run as administrator when you login with user still doesn’t work. That’s necessary to login with administrator and run rsop.msc. It’s a by design feature. Thank you for your understanding. Regards, Leo Huang Please remember to click Mark as Answer on the post that helps you, and to click Unmark as Answer if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.

In the GPMC you should still be able to use the GPResults to get applied Group Policy settings for a specific user (not just the logged on user)Lee Bowman MCITP MCTS

In Windows 7, you can run RSOP.msc as a logged on user who is not an administrator, however it will only show the user applied policy settings and not the ones applied to the computer. To see the ones applied to the computer you would need to run it as an Administrator.