After a Group Policy is backed up and restored, it is not visible in NetIQ Group Policy Administrato (NETIQKB4407)

fact
NetIQ Group Policy Administrator 2.0

fact
NetIQ Group Policy Administrator 3.0

symptom
After a Group Policy is backed up and restored, it is not visible in NetIQ Group Policy Administrator and no error messages are reported during the restoration.

cause

The following conditions may cause this issue:

• The backed up GPO did not have any AD Object links.
• The Links option was not selected under GPO Restore Options when the restore operation was performed.

In either situation above, the GPO settings would have been created but not linked.

note
This behavior is by design, allowing one to view all Group Policy Objects in the domain which are not linked to any Active Directory objects.

Formerly known as NETIQKB4407