Resultant Set of Policy: A Group Policy snap-in that allows one to see how multiple Group Policy objects affect various combinations of users and computers, or to predict the effect of Group Policy settings on the network.

Consider the following scenario:

• In an Active Directory domain, you have member computers that are running Windows Vista Service Pack 1 or Windows Server 2008.
• You configure a file security policy to set file permissions on a folder.
• The path that you specified for the folder contains some environment variables. For example, you specify the following path for the folder:
  

  %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\MICROSOFT\WINDOWS\START MENU\PROGRAMS\STARTUP

In this scenario, when you run the Resultant Set of Policy (RSoP) Microsoft Management Console (MMC) snap-in on a member computer, the security file policy is missing. Additionally, the following event is logged on the domain controllers and on the member computers:

Log Name: System
Source: Microsoft-Windows-GroupPolicy
Date: Date_Time
Event ID: 1091
Task Category: None
Level: Warning
Keywords:
User: SYSTEM
Computer: ComputerName
Description:
Windows could not record the Resultant Set of Policy (RSoP) information for the Group Policy extension Security. Group Policy settings successfully applied to the computer or user; however, management tools may not report accurately.