Whenever discussing the restoration of data from a backup, it is always the goal that you never actually have to enact these steps. Recovering backup data is generally associated with disaster-recovery, which is not a situation that any IT professional wants to find themselves in the middle of. However, there are two different reasons why you might find yourself needing to restore a GPO, and one of them is something that can actually be quite common. Restoring a GPO could become necessary in the event that a GPO is lost, deleted, or somehow corrupted. In these cases, you are still in that disaster-recovery boat, wanting to recover the GPO in order to restore order to the force.
The second, and much more common, reason to restore ...
