The Difference Report fails to detect changes in subfields, such as text boxes or lists within GPO settings. It only compares the high-level status (e.g. “Enabled”) but completely ignores the actual configuration content entered in subfields.
We found the cause of the difference report issue. Microsoft introduced a new object type in the backup XML files, "MultiText" which we have not encountered before. As such, our difference engine did not know how to process these values.
We have updated the GPODiffConfig.xml file to handle the processing of these values (attached below). In addition, we have created an enhancement to have this update to the GPODiffConfig.xml file included in future releases of GPOADmin.
The enhancement ID is 588670
Workaround: Please replace the existing GPODiffConfig.xml file in "C:\Program Files\Quest\GPOADmin\Transforms". With the attached file: GpoDiffConfig.zip
