How to do it...

There is a GPO in our domain called Map Network Drives. First, we will use Group Policy Management Console to back up and restore this GPO:

  1. From the Tools menu of Server Manager, open up the Group Policy Management Console.
  2. Navigate to Forest | Domains | Your Domain Name | Group Policy Objects.
  3. If you want to back up a single GPO, you simply right-click on the specific GPO and choose Back Up... Otherwise, it is probably more useful for us to back up the whole set of GPOs. To accomplish that, right-click on the Group Policy Objects folder and then choose Back Up All...:
  1. Specify a location where you want the backups to be ...

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