Where does Group Policy store its log files on Windows?

Group Policy

2 log locations · Windows

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Where Group Policy keeps its logs

Group Policy logs to Event Viewer > Applications and Services Logs > Microsoft > Windows > GroupPolicy > Operational on Windows. 1 other Windows log location is recorded below.

Paths are printed exactly as Group Policy writes them. Environment variables like %LOCALAPPDATA% and $XDG_STATE_HOME are never expanded, so a path can be pasted straight into a shell. Where a path differs between installer types or shipping flavours, each one is racked as its own card below - why that happens.

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Group Policy - Windows

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Group Policy processing eventsEvent Viewer > Applications and Services Logs > Microsoft > Windows > GroupPolicy > Operational

Group Policy service debug log

%WINDIR%\debug\usermode\gpsvc.log- Only after setting the GPSvcDebugLevel registry value and creating the usermode folder.

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