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group policy - copying between different sites/organizations/domains/servers
Is there any way to copy a group policy from one server/domain system to a completely different one? Example: I have a site where I have the Group Policies exactly the way I like them. I want to replicate the same policies at a completely different site - different organization, different domain, different server completely.
Henrik Johansson
In GPMC, right-click the GPO and backup it to the file system and restore it in the second organization.
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Thanks for the quick response. I just want to make clear that when you say a second organization I am understanding that you are referring to a completely different physical organization not a different AD type organization within the same domain - that is that you referring to moving a group policy from company A in Kansas to a company B in Iowa that have nothing in common other than that they run the same O/S.
Yes, I understood it as you were talking about different forest isolated from the original forest, and to do that you nead to backup the original GPO to file system and restore it in the new organization.
If you just want to use another organizational unit (OU), you can just link the GPO to the extra OU
If you just want to use another organizational unit (OU), you can just link the GPO to the extra OU
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Sorry if I seem to be re-asking the same question but I want to be 100% clear and I'm not clear from your answer whether we're on the same wave length.
The two organizations - I mean that in the commerical sense not the Active Directory sense - have nothing in common - they are two completely different commercial entities. So I have a complete network with GP0's set up in city A country A - organization 1 I get a call to set up a brand new system from scratch at an organization organization B - that knows nothing about organization A. I like the group polices I used at company A and rather than click and pick them all from scratch want to just copy those from company A. The GPMC export and import will work in this scenario?
The two organizations - I mean that in the commerical sense not the Active Directory sense - have nothing in common - they are two completely different commercial entities. So I have a complete network with GP0's set up in city A country A - organization 1 I get a call to set up a brand new system from scratch at an organization organization B - that knows nothing about organization A. I like the group polices I used at company A and rather than click and pick them all from scratch want to just copy those from company A. The GPMC export and import will work in this scenario?
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