I previously blogged about how Microsoft is going to deliver some PowerShell cmdlets in Windows 7 for Group Policy. Now that Windows 7 beta is out, information is starting to flow about what these will look like. A recent blog post by the GP product team at Microsoft introduces the first of these new cmdlets — New-GPO, which, as the name implies, lets you create a new GPO from scratch or from a Starter GPO. This is equivalent to our New-SDMGPO cmdlet in our GPMC cmdlets, about which there was a nice nod at the end of the Microsoft posting. I’ve started to play around with the new Win 7 GP cmdlets and will be posting some information about them as I find out more. The good news is that, as of the current beta, Microsoft is shipping some 25 cmdlets, ranging from creating and linking GPOs to modifying GPO permissions to a set of 6 cmdlets for managing registry policy and GP Preferences Registry policy. More later as I get familiar with these new cmdlets.
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Group Policy, PowerShell, Windows 7
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About the Author:
Darren Mar-Elia is CTO & Founder of SDM Software, Inc. Darren has over 25 years of IT and Software experience in the Microsoft technology area, including serving as a Director in Infrastructure at Charles Schwab, CTO of Windows Management Solutions at Quest Software, and Sr. Director of Product Engineering at DesktopStandard. He has been a Microsoft MVP in Group Policy technology for the last 6 years and has written and spoken on Active Directory, Group Policy and PowerShell topics frequently over the years. He maintains the popular Group Policy resource web site at www.gpoguy.com and has been a contributing editor for Windows IT Pro Magazine since 1997. He has written and contributed to twelve books on Windows. Darren also speaks frequently at conferences on Windows infrastructure topics.