Guy- In terms of best practices for a GPO change process using GPMC, you might want to check out the Windows Server 2003 Deployment guide. I know that I wrote a chapter in there about using GPMC to move GPOs from test to production environments and there are other chapters in there covering other aspects.
Darren -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Guy Teverovsky Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2003 11:49 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] GPO change management Thanks Matty, I have looked at the code and although I posses no knowledge of .NET, the logic is very clear. I am more in the direction of change tracking and that can be easily done by combining sample GPMC scripts with some logic from the C# wrapper class. Fancy interface is not an issue here: we have a rather small group of people who will be managing the Group Policies and they are not scared of CLI. Thanks, Guy On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 16:29, Holland Matthew BC GB wrote: > 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/
