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Group Policy: Fundamentals, Security, and Troubleshooting
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Group Policy: Fundamentals, Security, and Troubleshooting

by Jeremy Moskowitz
May 2008
Intermediate to advanced
791 pages
21h 45m
English
Sybex
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2.4. Backing Up and Restoring Group Policy Objects

Inadvertently deleting a single GPO can wreak havoc on your domain. Imagine what happens when a bunch of GPOs are inadvertently deleted. Let's just say that the users are suddenly happy because they can do stuff they couldn't normally do, and you're not happy because now they're happy. Ironic, isn't it?

It's not just the errant Group Policy deletion that could cause an issue. Another administrator could inadvertently delete a portion of the SYSVOL container on one Domain Controller, which will replicate to all Domain Controllers and quickly damage your GPOs.

In both of these example cases, you'll need a way to restore.

NOTE

The Backup and Restore functions for GPOs are only meant to work within ...

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