thanks both What this is all about is putting in place the necessary operational practices to ensure capability to restore in the event of scenario of restore of GPO.
>From both your notes it seems that with the backups of the GPO's themselves (backupallGPOs.wsf) together with the output from ListSOMPolicyTree.wsf scripts I have ALL necessary information for the return of the GPO (and the OU to which it is linked) to prior state Thanks > Graham- > The Inheritance and Delegation tabs (when you're sitting on a container object like an OU in GPMC) provides the information indicated below. I guess I'm wondering what you're missing from that? Its true that GPMC > backup/restore does not restore links, link order or Enforced flags, but > there are 3rd party products that can do this, combining GPO restore with the AD parts of that. > > Darren > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Graham Turner Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2006 10:05 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [ActiveDir] management of group policy links (GPMC) > > Dear all, as i recall / understand group policy links are stored as an > attribute > (gplink) of the OU. > > It seems that GPMC is fine at summarising the links on a per OU basis as you > step down the forest / domain structure. > > However it seems to lack a summary of OU / linked GPO(s) / link order / > security filtering / delegation > > Would seem to be helpful in the context of a documentation of an Active > Directory, especially given the scenario of restore of a GPO which does not look to restore links, let alone the link order which would need to be restored somehow in the event of GPO restore. > > Thanks, as always > > GT > > List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx > List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx > List archive: http://www.activedir.org/ml/threads.aspx > > List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx > List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx > List archive: http://www.activedir.org/ml/threads.aspx > List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.activedir.org/ml/threads.aspx
