by Darren Mar-Elia | Sep 26, 2011 | General Stuff, GPMC, Group Policy Management, Group Policy Tools, PowerShell
When we created our GPMC PowerShell cmdlets in 2008, they made it easy to get at GPMC functionality within PowerShell v1. When Microsoft shipped Windows 7/2008-R2, they also provided their own set of GPMC-related cmdlets within their GroupPolicy module. At the time I...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Jun 8, 2011 | GPMC, Group Policy, PowerShell
Sometimes I’m reminded that, even though Microsoft has been shipping their Group Policy PowerShell module for a while now, it is missing some key functionality. Fortunately, it took someone else asking me a question about how they could script something in...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Mar 14, 2011 | GPMC, PowerShell
Sometimes you want to know how many GPOs you have in a domain. Powershell provides a way to do this quickly and easily. Earlier today I tweeted about the way to do this in Windows 7 or Server 2008-R2, using the Microsoft-provided “GroupPolicy” PowerShell...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Feb 24, 2010 | GPMC
As a follow-on to my last blog post, here’s another interesting Group Policy Backup scenario to keep in mind. A user emailed that they were having problems importing a GPO backup that was created on a test Server 2008-R2 AD domain, into a Server 2003 AD domain....
