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Turn on and off a specific group policy in Active Directory via batch, script, or some other scheduled option?
I have hosted servers at a colocation facility, Windows 2012 R2 active directory domain. I have a policy that helps prevent things from installing as part of our malware defense, and it works fine.
But when I need to run windows updates, they fail. I would like to be able to set a specific time and date for the servers to run windows update, but in order for this to happen, I'd also have to be able to somehow, programmatically, disable this one particular group policy object.
I can set the servers to stagger their automatic updates and reboots over a Saturday early morning and a Sunday early morning to keep them from interfering with normal business operations, but unless I'm awake to manually turn off the group policy at that time (or turn it off much earlier the previous day and let it be disabled until I turn it back on) the updates would fail.
Is there some way I can script powershell, or a batch file, or something so that I can, for example, turn off the specified group policy object at X:XX time, and another to re-enable it at y:yy time?
Thanks for any suggestions
But when I need to run windows updates, they fail. I would like to be able to set a specific time and date for the servers to run windows update, but in order for this to happen, I'd also have to be able to somehow, programmatically, disable this one particular group policy object.
I can set the servers to stagger their automatic updates and reboots over a Saturday early morning and a Sunday early morning to keep them from interfering with normal business operations, but unless I'm awake to manually turn off the group policy at that time (or turn it off much earlier the previous day and let it be disabled until I turn it back on) the updates would fail.
Is there some way I can script powershell, or a batch file, or something so that I can, for example, turn off the specified group policy object at X:XX time, and another to re-enable it at y:yy time?
Thanks for any suggestions
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See the post by Dale, at the bottom... "After going through the whole threads, the error is due to..."
Your case would be like:
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/scriptcenter/en-US/92100b09-4a5b-4b66-8903-fdd786a58f5e/enablingdisabling-a-gpo?forum=winserverpowershell
In that post, the solution worked using the GUID instead of the Name. So you may need to use GUID if Name doesn't work.
After you confirm it works manually, you can add it to a scheduled task to automate it. Your task action would be like:
Your case would be like:
Import-Module GroupPolicy
Set-GPLink –Name myGPO –Target “ou=MyOU,dc=contoso,dc-com” –LinkEnabled No
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/scriptcenter/en-US/92100b09-4a5b-4b66-8903-fdd786a58f5e/enablingdisabling-a-gpo?forum=winserverpowershell
In that post, the solution worked using the GUID instead of the Name. So you may need to use GUID if Name doesn't work.
After you confirm it works manually, you can add it to a scheduled task to automate it. Your task action would be like:
powershell.exe -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File c:\foldername\filename.ps1
Thanks, never got the notification that this question had answers, so I'll be trying this stuff this week!
John
John
Both solution would probably fix the question. The requester should try both to see which is more convenient.
Flores' shouldn't have been marked as an answer, since simply telling me that group policies can be applied to specific things did nothing to answer my actual question.
NVIT, your answer was perfect. Created two batch files to run a powershell.exe command with PS1 files, one to turn on, one to turn off, and it does exactly what I needed. Thanks!
NVIT, your answer was perfect. Created two batch files to run a powershell.exe command with PS1 files, one to turn on, one to turn off, and it does exactly what I needed. Thanks!
Hi networkspecialists,
Please, instead of giving a condescending response, you should have given that points to the people you agree with... on time!. Your last comment was 2016-09-27. Time enough to award the points to the person that gave the correct answer. Like it or not, I gave some answer to your question spending my own time, please keep this in mind.
I agree if it is possible to revert the points awarded to me.
Regards,
Please, instead of giving a condescending response, you should have given that points to the people you agree with... on time!. Your last comment was 2016-09-27. Time enough to award the points to the person that gave the correct answer. Like it or not, I gave some answer to your question spending my own time, please keep this in mind.
I agree if it is possible to revert the points awarded to me.
Regards,
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I would try and investigate that options.
..MFlores..