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Published inJul 2022
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ISBN-139781803242507
Edition2nd Edition
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Sander Berkouwer
Sander Berkouwer
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Sander Berkouwer

Sander Berkouwer calls himself an Active Directory aficionado; he's done everything with Active Directory and Azure AD, including decommissioning. He has been MCSA, MCSE, and MCITP-certified for ages, an MCT for the past 5 years and a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) on Directory Services and Enterprise Mobility for over a decade. Sander is also decorated with Veeam Vanguard and VMware vExpert awards for his international cross-platform knowledge, experience and passion. As the CTO at SCCT, Sander leads a team of architects performing many projects, most of them identity-related, throughout Europe.
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Copying a GPO

This recipe shows how to copy an existing GPO to a new GPO. This is useful when you have configured the perfect GPO but want to adjust just a single setting to apply to legacy versions of the operating system or a test version in another OU.

Getting ready

To copy a GPO, sign in to a system with the Group Policy Management feature installed with an account that is either of the following:

  • A member of the Domain Admins group
  • Delegated to create GPOs and has at least read permissions on the GPO to be copied

How to do it...

This recipe shows two ways to copy a GPO:

  • Using Group Policy Management
  • Using Windows PowerShell

Using Group Policy Management

To copy a GPO, perform the following steps:

  1. Press Start.
  2. Search for Group Policy Management and click its search result, or run gpmc.msc. The Group Policy Management window appears.
  3. In the left navigation pane, expand the Forest node.
  4. Expand the Domains node...
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Active Directory Administration Cookbook - Second Edition
Published in: Jul 2022Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781803242507

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Sander Berkouwer

Sander Berkouwer calls himself an Active Directory aficionado; he's done everything with Active Directory and Azure AD, including decommissioning. He has been MCSA, MCSE, and MCITP-certified for ages, an MCT for the past 5 years and a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) on Directory Services and Enterprise Mobility for over a decade. Sander is also decorated with Veeam Vanguard and VMware vExpert awards for his international cross-platform knowledge, experience and passion. As the CTO at SCCT, Sander leads a team of architects performing many projects, most of them identity-related, throughout Europe.
Read more about Sander Berkouwer