I previously blogged about how Microsoft is going to deliver some PowerShell cmdlets in Windows 7 for Group Policy. Now that Windows 7 beta is out, information is starting to flow about what these will look like. A recent blog post by the GP product team at Microsoft introduces the first of these new cmdlets — New-GPO, which, as the name implies, lets you create a new GPO from scratch or from a Starter GPO. This is equivalent to our New-SDMGPO cmdlet in our GPMC cmdlets, about which there was a nice nod at the end of the Microsoft posting. I’ve started to play around with the new Win 7 GP cmdlets and will be posting some information about them as I find out more. The good news is that, as of the current beta, Microsoft is shipping some 25 cmdlets, ranging from creating and linking GPOs to modifying GPO permissions to a set of 6 cmdlets for managing registry policy and GP Preferences Registry policy. More later as I get familiar with these new cmdlets.
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