Environment
NetIQ Group Policy Administrator 6.x
Situation
NetIQ Group Policy Administrator (GPA) has the ability to create a backup of existing Group Policy Objects (GPOs) within Active Directory (AD). This allows the GPA Users the ability to roll back to a previous AD version of a GPO, in event of a problem
Resolution
To enable the backup option:
- Logon to a GPA Console within the same domain as the GPA Server.
- Logon to the GPA Console as an AD user with at least Full Repository Control permissions granted to the user at the top level of the GPA Repository.
- Right Click on the Repository Server Name.
- From the Right Click menu, choose properties
- From the Repository Properties menu, choose customize options
- From the custom options menu there are two options related to Live GPO backup
- Display the backup category
- This shows the special Repository category containing all Live AD GPO Backups
- Backup live GPO during export
- Once this option is configured, on GPO Export GPA will create a backup copy of the existing live AD GPO. This backup will be stored within the Backup category listed in the GPA Repository.
- Once you are done changing the settings, click OK to apply the settings and close the server options window
- The next time the GPA Console is re-opened the backup setting will take effect.
- The GPO back option is a per GPA Repository option, and will apply to all managed domains