A.2. Microsoft Tools Roundup

As might be expected, Microsoft has a slew of tools to help manage your Group Policy infrastructure as well as your user profiles. In this section, we'll check out the Microsoft tools and where to find them.

Wholesale Backup and Restore of Your Test Lab (or an Easy Way to Migrate to Production)

One more tip before we leave this section. That is, when you're working in your test lab, you might find it necessary to completely demolish and rebuild your test lab for a variety of reasons. However, as noted in Chapter 2, when a GPO is restored, the links are not restored along with the GPO. Again, this is a protection mechanism for your benefit. However, as they say in the hallowed IT halls, "What you do in the test lab ...

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