Information Technology Reference
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FIGURE 6-16
The Manage Backups dialog box
In the Manage Backups dialog box, you can select a backup to restore, you can delete a
backup, or you can view the backup settings. You can also browse for other locations where
GPOs are backed up.
You can use the GroupPolicy module of Windows PowerShell to back up and restore GPOs.
Use the Backup-GPO cmdlet to back up GPOs. To back up all the GPOs in the domain of the
current user, use the following command:
Backup-GPO -All -Path <path to GPO backups>
To restore a previously backed-up GPO, use the Restore-GPO cmdlet. To restore the most
recently backed-up version of the Default Domain Policy, use the following command:
Restore-GPO -Name "Default Domain Policy" -path <path to GPO backups>
Importing GpO settings
You can import the settings from a backed-up GPO into any other GPO. When you import
the settings of a GPO, you import only the settings. The existing attributes of the target GPO,
such as security filtering, delegation, links, and WMI filtering, are left untouched. To import
GPO settings, follow these steps:
1.
Open the GPMC and navigate to the Group Policy Objects container for the domain
you want to import settings to.
