GPMC Features and Functionality

The Group Policy Management Console (GPMC) has programmatic interfaces for the following features:

• Backing up, restoring, importing, and copying Group Policy objects (GPOs).
• Creating, deleting, and renaming GPOs and Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) filters.
• Linking GPOs and WMI filters.
• Searching for GPOs.
• Delegating Group Policy-related features including permissions on GPOs and WMI filters, policy-related permissions on SOMs (sites, domains, and OUs), and creation rights for GPOs and WMI filters.
• Reporting GPO settings.
• Reporting Resultant Set of Policy (RSoP) data.
• Creating and modifying migration tables.
• Creating RSoP queries.

For more information about backup, restore, import, and copy operations, see GPO Operations Supported by the GPMC.