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Administrative Templates

Hi guys,
I hope you can help.

We have a requirement to move 3 servers from one subdomain to another subdomain.

So,

subdomainA
|-------------- serverOU
|------------------ server gpo
|------------------ user gpo

to

subdomainB
|-------------- serverOU
|------------------ server gpo
|------------------ user gpo

Now,

In the original subdomain (subdomainA), there are 2 gpos for the serverOU container.
Each of these OUs has administrative templates added, around 6 of them.

When I move these 3 servers into the new subdomain (subdomainB), I want to ensure that the 2 gpos attached to the new OU in this new domain, are identical in every way to the original 2 gpos in the original domain. This will mean adding the required admin templates to the new serverOU container in subdomainB to the 2 new gpos in here.

My question is this.

In the new subdomainB, can I do the following?

1.Open up each new gpo
2.Add the required admin templates to each new gpo by pointing to the location of the Adm folder for the original gpo in the old subdomain?

Is this safe to do so?

Any help greatly appreciated.

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Mike Kline

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Simon336697

ASKER

Hi mkline71, thanks so much for your help mate.
That makes perfect sense.

I created 2 new "blank" group policies in the new subdomain, because I wanted to keep it clean.

I was a bit dubious about doing the import option which I knew about because I thought that importing the settings from a group policy that exists in another domain might cause issues.

But you dont see this as a problem mate?

Simon336697

ASKER

The other thing is, when you do an import of all the settings, does this import the account information, eg.if the computer accounts are part of a secuity filter for a gpo, but they dont as yet exist in the new domain, then when you import the settings, they will not be there in the new gpo.

Simon336697

ASKER

Thanks so much mkline, really appreciate it.

Mike Kline

Sorry I didn't respond back, long holiday weekend. You can use migration tables for some of those group references, not 100% sure on the security filtering though.