Late last year, we (SDM Software that is!) announced the GPExpert™ Backup Manager for Group Policy product. Well, the product is now available to trial on our website. The product leverages the GPMC’s backup format but also includes some neat features such as the ability to backup and restore GPO Links, a feature that lets you check your GPOs to ensure the current version has been backed up, the ability to schedule GPO backups and a Backup-on-Edit feature, where you can backup a GPO as a function of starting the GP Editor on that GPO. I’m excited that these and other features will give folks excellent control over their GP environments from a backup and recovery perspective. Check it out and let me know what you think!
Darren
Tags:
Group Policy, Group Policy Backup, SDM Software
JAN
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.