Restoring GPO from Backup does not restore it completely ?

Question

Hi,

I have tested this several times, I make a GPO backup and restore it in a different machine and the backup does not restore the GPO completely. In particular the Network Manager List - Network Name Value is not restored, however, when I check the GPO after restore it shows the value exists in the GPO, upon reboot the value is lost from the restored GPO.

Any idea on how to get this working, or is this a bug ?

Thank You

Answer 1

Hi,

When you Open GPMC be sure that you are connecting on your PDC and try to import GPO setting from restored GPO .

If you still have same behavior , run dcdiag to check the DC health and sysvol replication.

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Answer 2

Hello there,

Do you get any error messages ?

Instead of restoring the GPO, create a new empty GPO then right-click on it and choose import settings. The backup that you exported from SCM will show up here and you can import all the settings to the new GPO.

Also try the below Scritp and see if that helps,

Import-Module GroupPolicy

New-GPO -Name "Homelab"

Import-GPO -BackupGpoName "Homelab" -TargetName "Homelab" -Path C:\

Get-GPO -Name "Homelab" | New-GPLink -Target "dc=homelab,dc=lab" -LinkEnabled Yes -Enforced Yes

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/grouppolicy/restore-gpo?view=windowsserver2022-ps

Hope this resolves your Query !!

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Answer 3

Hi,,

Just so there is clarity in the post.

I make the backup with the Backup-GPO command, and restore it the same way as in @Limitless Technology script which is when this problem happens, I'm automating this so I'm using powershell for this, but it doesn't restore the Network Manager List - Network Name.

So I tried backing up manually and restoring manually, this way works fine.

Unsure whats going on.

Answer 4

Hi,

Just so there is clarity in the post. I make the backup with the Backup-GPO command, and restore it the same way as in @Limitless Technology script which is when this problem happens, I'm automating this so I'm using powershell for this, but it does not work as expected.

There is no error when restoring with Powershell.

$gpoPath = Join-Path -Path $PSScriptRoot -ChildPath "HLABGPO"

Import-Module GroupPolicy

New-GPO -Name "HLAB"

Import-GPO -BackupGpoName "HLAB" -TargetName "HLAB" -Path $gpoPath

Get-GPO -Name "HLAB" | New-GPLink -Target "dc=hlab,dc=lab" -LinkEnabled Yes - Enforced Yes

gpupdate /force