Group Policy Backup

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Marc A. Mapplebeck

Hi there, me again, after considering the troubles of changing the domain
name by demoting the PDC then run dcpromo to create a new domain of the
needed name, I have just decided to reinstall the whole OS and rebuild the
domain from scratch, time for some major cleanup anyways. The directory is
easy to rebuils as there are less than 25 users to add initially, but I do
have quite a load of custom work in the group policies, is there a way to
backup the policy and be able to use it in the new domain or will I need to
start from scratch?
 
NOTE - The tool will run against a 2000 AD assuming it is executed on an
XP domain member. That said, it would appear you don't have one but I
felt it worth mentioning anyway.

The following is neither free nor a Microsoft product but has many
useful features, I haven't used it for quite some time now but it's
likely that it will serve your purpose -

http://www2.fullarmor.com/solutions/group/

HTH

Dean
 
NOTE - The tool will run against a 2000 AD assuming it is executed on an
XP domain member. That said, it would appear you don't have one but I
felt it worth mentioning anyway.

The following is neither free nor a Microsoft product but has many
useful features, I haven't used it for quite some time now but it's
likely that it will serve your purpose -

http://www2.fullarmor.com/solutions/group/

HTH

Dean
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yes, i understood that ... its just annoying that tools created from the
requests of users are made to work on only the later versions and whilst
they have full backward compatibilty to run against a 2000 ad they wont
run on it ... just seems like another of those push to upgrade
scenario's

lets face it the whole active directory / group policy etc etc should
have a full gui interface that allows for full import/export / seperate
backup, etc ... but nope, its just a shambles when things do go wrong or
people want to do things with large numbers of users

if i was going to pay for anything i may as well upgrade a system to xp
and run it from there ... just sort of defeats the whole standardisation
we have going with win2k server & win2k pro clients
 
Personally, I certainly don't think that the entire thing remotely
resembles a shambles (quite the reverse in fact) but I do wholeheartedly
agree with you on the Group Policy management aspect of Windows 2000.
GPMC was designed to address this but sadly requires many of the uplevel
client OS resources.

Upgrading a client machine to XP would provide an effective means of
gaining the Group Policy management capabilities you seek.

Dean
 
Personally, I certainly don't think that the entire thing remotely
resembles a shambles (quite the reverse in fact) but I do wholeheartedly
agree with you on the Group Policy management aspect of Windows 2000.
GPMC was designed to address this but sadly requires many of the uplevel
client OS resources.
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i may have overstated the shambles a little bit, i was stressing about
something at the time!

but they built a bare bones group policy that can do things well but
basically forgot about managing it - not even being able to reset the
defaults which seems a fairly basic option to have ... many other areas
but maybe theyve been fully addressed .. i'll wait to see it
Upgrading a client machine to XP would provide an effective means of
gaining the Group Policy management capabilities you seek.

Dean
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yes ... but in all seriousness who was responsible for the decision to
have the first default desktop screen of xp 'professional' just like
something out of the telly tubbies kiddies program!!! ;)
 
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