This is the newest Version of my AD GPO Backup tool. The download is now also available on GitHub.

Version 1.1

Thanks to the automatic zip compression your backups are now heavily reduced in size by default. Now it is also possible to turn off the recursive OU scan if you don’t need backups of linked GPO below the selected structure.

Github repository: https://github.com/beneckecloud/AD_GPO_Backup

New Features

• Recursive Backup (include/exclude sub OU)
• Zip Backup
• Download available on Github

Modifications

• New/simple file structure
• Updated documentation part
• New function “Test-OU”
• New function “Compress-Path“
• Updated function “Backup-GPOCB” (Zip/Recursive support)
• Updated function “Choose-ADOrganizationalUnit” (Zip/Recursive GUI support)

When editing Group Policy Objects you should always be aware of taking backups before changing anything. But from time to time you need to backup not just one GPO. This could be easyly managed by MS standard tools. Sometimes you need to backup all GPOs that are linked to a Organizational Unit. There is no GUI tool from Microsoft supporting this case, therefore I’ve built a small PowerShell script that will support you.

The script is easy to handle. Just start it and select the OU your policies are linked to. The script will start backup of your linked GPOs (recursively).

I’ve used the “Active Directory OU picker” from “MicaH’s IT blog” for easy OU selection.

Download

This is the first release. Be carefull when using it in productive environments.

Always test before using in production!

AD_GPO_Backup.zip

Published: 10/03/2019

Type: zip Size: 22.97 KB | 2,710 times

[Update 02.06.2021] Download is now also available on Github.

Repository: https://github.com/beneckecloud/AD_GPO_Backup/

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