Exporting settings from Local GPEdit.msc in Win 10 Pro

Question

Hi people, how are you doing?

I'm on Windows 10 Professional x64

I configured all the settings in GPEdit.msc

I have other machines that I want to have the same configurations and they are NOT part of a domain. Just my notebook and some desktops at home that I want to reinstall or be able to reinstall without having to go over the entire Group Policy, setting by setting, which took me ages.

I found an answer here that says that copying the folder C:\Windows\System32\GroupPolicy from the edited PC onto a fresh one will accomplish this but nothing gets copied at all. After copying the folder on a second machine, and all the policies are not set, even after restarting the receiving computer. An Admin CMD running GPUpdate /Force doesn't change anything either.

Here's the link to that question: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/how-to-export-local-security-policies-and-gpo/a99e7b9d-10d3-4edf-9cdd-6abad9e5290b It also has a link with wrong wording about how to do it if the PC is "not" part of a domain but that link is specifically to copy policy templates between AD forests. So it doesn't apply either.

Since that question has been answered in 2013 for Win 7 and kinda ten years is a lot on IT, maybe that method doesn't work anymore.

So... how do I export/copy/replicate the changes in the Local Group Policies between Windows 10 Professional x64 machines on a Workgroup?

Answer 1

You can follow along here.
https://woshub.com/backupimport-local-group-policy-settings/

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