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Objective 6.3: Manage Group Policy Objects (GPOs)
Because Group Policy is critical to the way computers and users can do their work in your
enterprise, you need to be able to back up and restore GPOs to known good states. And
when things go really wrong, you can reset the default GPOs to their shipping state. When
you want to copy GPOs to a new domain environment, use a Migration Table to manage the
changes. Finally, you can delegate management of portions of Group Policy to users who are
not full domain administrators.
This objective covers how to:
Back up, import, copy, and restore GPOs
Create and configure a Migration Table
Reset default GPOs
Delegate Group Policy management
Backing up, importing, copying, and restoring GpOs
You can back up and restore GPOs as well as make copies of them. You can also import the
settings from a backed-up GPO without changing the other settings of the GPO, and you can
copy GPOs, either within a domain or across domain boundaries.
Backing up and restoring GpOs
When you back up a GPO, the GPO is saved, but the settings that are external to the GPO,
such as WMI filters, are not saved. To back up a GPO, open the GPMC and right-click the GPO
you want to back up. Select Back Up from the menu to open the Back Up Group Policy Object
dialog box shown in Figure 6-14.
FIGURE 6-14 The Back Up Group Policy Object dialog box
 
 
 
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