Well, many of you know that we released the GPExpert Scripting Toolkit for PowerShell back at the end of July. The Toolkit lets you modify the settings within Group Policy objects using PowerShell. I also had a couple of cmdlets out on my GPOGUY.COM site that wrapped up some GPMC functionality for creating new GPOs and getting information on existing ones. More recently, I decided to flesh out that GPMC functionality even more, and I’m happy to announce that I just posted a new PowerShell snap-in for GPMC last night on our Freeware Page. The new snap-in contains 9 cmdlets, as follows:
Add-SDMgplink
Add-SDMgpoSecurity
Export-SDMgpo
Get-SDMgpo
Get-SDMgpoSecurity
Import-SDMgpo
New-SDMgpo
Remove-SDMgpo
Remove-SDMgpoSecurity
These new cmdlets let you use PowerShell to easily get at GPMC functionality such as linking GPOs to AD containers, modifying and retrieving security permissions on GPOs, backing up and restoring GPOs and creating and deleting GPOs. Give them a spin and let me know what you think!
Tags
Group Policy, PowerShell, GPMC, SDM Software
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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.