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Published inJul 2022
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ISBN-139781803242507
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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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Backing up and restoring GPOs

Group Policy Management does not offer to roll back changes in Group Policy Objects (GPOs). However, when, in the process of modifying GPOs, a step is added to create a backup of the GPOs, inadvertent settings can be rolled back by restoring a previous backup.

This recipe shows what that step would look like and how to restore a GPO.

Getting ready

Sign in to a domain controller or a member server and/or device with the RSAT for Active Directory Domain Services installed. Ideally, the domain controller or member server runs Windows Server 2012, or a newer version of Windows Server.

Sign in with an account that is a member of the Domain Admins group. In contrast to the delegation of creating, linking, managing, editing, and reading GPOs, backing up and restoring GPOs cannot be delegated.

How to do it...

Perform these steps to back up GPOs:

  1. Press Start.
  2. Search for Group Policy Management and select it from the search results...
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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