Powershell – Backing up Group Policy Objects and their OU Links

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I realise there are multiple ways in which you can backup GPO's – via Powershell, via Group Policy Mgmt and so forth, but how in Windows are you able to backup not only the GPO's themselves, but their links to their respective OU's too? Is this achievable with these tools or would it require something like a System State backup to work?

Cheers!

Best Answer

OU links are stored in the AD Database. So a system state backup and AD restore would make the job. Every container has an Attribute called gplink. So if you take an ldifde dump of that attribute I guess you could re-import it later. I hope this help.

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