From the course: Windows Server 2012: Group Policy

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Group Policy management

Group Policy management

- Now that you've got your group policy environment in place and you started deploying group policies out to your environment at the OU level, whether it be at computers or affecting your users, there's now some management tasks that we need to take care of with inside the environment. In this session, we'll be looking at how can we back up and restore all of our group policy objects, or how can I back up and restore an individual group policy object? We'll look at a feature that Microsoft gave us with Group Policy Management Console in Server 2003 that allows us to copy a group policy object. Let's say, for instance, Adam has created the greatest group policy ever for locking down users inside their organizational unit. You need the same type of policy for your organizational unit, so you can go out and you can actually now copy Adam's group policy object and apply it to your users, which is actually a really cool feature, without having to recreate it altogether. There also may be…

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