Hi Guy, You can have a look on the http://www.activedir.org site. The Group Policy FAQ you will probably help you find some of the answers you are looking for.
I have to agree with your point on the 3rd party tools, GPMC will pretty much do everything you need, especially if you are prepared to automate some of these tasks using scripts. We actually use web based management for most of the GPO operations, for this we created a .NET GPMC Class. If you are interested in this you can download the code from http://www.activedir.org downloads. Cheers, Matty -----Original Message----- From: Guy Teverovsky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 06 December 2003 04:03 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ActiveDir] GPO change management Hi all, My organization is currently running a W2K3 pilot and i have been assigned the task of defining GPO change management, backup and restore procedures. I have divided this into 3 sub-categories: 1) Procedures for tasks related to changes in the Group Policies (testing new GPOs, archiving, establishing new baseline, backup, etc..) 2) Documentation of changes 3) GPO management tools. Now, as I was used to W2K environment, I started by looking into third party tools: FAZAM 2000, Directory Administrator by Small Wonders and ActiveRoles by Quest without totally being aware of the existence of GPMC. I have dedicated some time to investigating this tool and meanwhile have not noticed any features I might benefit of by buying third party software. Except GPO merging, restoring GPO links, exporting GPO to a database, comparing GPOs and some other minor features, it seems that a bunch of automated scripts can do a pretty good job. Any insights on this ? Am I missing something here ? Second question: have anybody encountered GPO change management best practices anywhere ? I do not mind reinventing the wheel, but additional insights are always welcome. Thanks in advance, Guy -- List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
