Active Directory Cookbook for windows server 2003- P28:If you are familiar with the O'Reilly Cookbook format that can be seen in other popular books, such as the Perl Cookbook, Java Cookbook, and DNS and BIND Cookbook, then the layout of this book will not be anything new to you. The book is composed of 18 chapters, each containing 10-30 recipes for performing a specific Active Directory task. Within each recipe are four sections: problem, solution, discussion, and see also. | 1. Open the GPMC snap-in. 2. In the left pane expand the Forest container expand the Domains container browse to the domain of the target GPO and expand the Group Policy Objects container. 3. Right-click on the target GPO and select Import Settings. 4. Click Next. 5. Click the Backup button if you want take a backup of the GPO you are importing into. 6. Click Next. 7. Select the backup folder location and click Next. 8. Select the backup instance you want to import from and click Next. 9. It then will scan to see if there are any security principals or UNC paths in the GPO being imported from. If there are it will give you an option to modify those settings. 10. Click Next. 11. Click Finish. Using a command-line interface GPOBackupLocation OrigGPOName NewGPOName Using VBScript This code imports the settings from a GPO that has been backed up into an existing GPO. ---- SCRIPT CONFIGURATION -------- strGPOImportTo GPOName . Sales GPO strDomain DomainDNSName . strBackupLocation BackupLocation . c GPMC Backups GUID representing specific backup . 3E53B39B-C29B-44FF-857B-8A84528804FF strBackupID BackupGUID ---- END CONFIGURATION ----------- set objGPM CreateObject set objGPMConstants Initialize the Domain object set objGPMDomain strDomain Locate GPO backup set objGPMBackupDir strBackupLocation set objGPMBackup strBackuplD Backup found ID Timestamp GPO ID GPO Name Comment Find GPO to import into set objGPMSearchCriteria cstr strGPOImportTo set objGPOList .
