PowerShell Management of Group Policies

With the release of Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012, Microsoft has now added functionality to manage group policies with PowerShell. This functionality is automatically enabled when the Group Policy Management feature is installed on a Windows 8 or Windows Server 2012 system. Microsoft includes 28 out-of-the-box PowerShell cmdlets for Group Policy. The cmdlets allow a Group Policy administrator to perform a number of different functions from within PowerShell, including the following:

• Create new GPOs and create new starter GPOs

• Create new GPO links

• Restore or import GPOs

• Remove GPOs and GPO links

• Read/set the properties of an OU to inherit parent GPO links or to block inheritance

• Rename a ...

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