GPOADmin

Group Policy Management & Administration

There's no need to rely on insufficient native tools or overpriced software suites to perform such critical tasks as GPO auditing and version control. NetPro's GPOADmin enhances the power of Microsoft’s Group Policy Management Console (GPMC), providing significant version control capabilities, as well as a robust GPO comparison feature, including complete comparisons between GPOs over time and GPO versions both within and across domains. GPOADmin also features GPO lock capabilities to prevent unwanted changes, a GPO cloak feature designed to hide and protect pre-production GPOs, check-in/check-out for secure editing, advanced searching and reporting, and GPO backup and link restoration.

KEY FEATURES:
Extend Group Policy Object Management

GPOADmin complements Microsoft's GPMC, eliminating the need to learn yet another third-party interface. And it requires no script-writing or manual processes, saving valuable time and reducing the risk of network outages. Further, you can keep recordings of all changes across multiple GPOs for secure reporting and rollback purposes, providing easy access to the details and information required for even the largest Active Directory deployments.

 

Automate Auditing and Tracking of All GPO Versions

Effective auditing of Group Policy reduces security breaches, eases regulatory compliance requirements, and increases the reliability of your overall infrastructure. GPOADmin integrates seamlessly with current processes to ensure critical tasks such as version control and auditing are preformed efficiently and effectively. And, GPOADmin automatically ensures that all GPO versions and edits are recorded, creating a log of each setting change as well as the individual who executed the change for audit and rollback purposes.

 

 

 

 

Compare Different Versions of GPOs

Whether you need to verify changes made to a GPO over time or validate the consistency of GPO settings between different GPOs, GPOADmin provides a robust set of required GPO comparison features. Case in point, you can compare two backup versions, a backup and an active GPO, or two active GPOs, both within and across domains. Using advanced algorithms, GPOADmin allows you to perform these complex comparisons, and others, in less time than you ever thought possible.

 

 

 

Scenario - Gaining Access to the Network

Like all components of your directory, Group Policy lives in a world of constant revision and advancement as employees come and go and applications are added or removed. As an administrator, group policy allows you to set administrative and security parameters, assign and publish software, specify logon and logoff scripts, and arrange for folders to be redirected on the network. As a result, it is important that you maintain an archive of GPO versions for backup and troubleshooting.

When a user is having trouble gaining access to the network or a virus or worm has entered the system, comparing previous GPO settings is an important step to locating and solving the problem. GPMC, however, has no direct support for comparing two GPOs. In fact, using native tools, you're limited to relying upon confusing html or xml reports that you have to compare manually using XMLDiff or Windiff. And even this can be fruitless in many cases.

Complete Group Policy Management

NetPro's GPOADmin extends the capabilities of GPMC by simplifying the use and administration of such critical tasks as GPO version control, auditing and comparison. Using Microsoft's Group Policy Management Console (GPMC), GPOAdmin enables you to verify changes made to a GPO over time or verify the consistency of GPO settings between different GPOs, such as test forest GPOs and production GPOs. Compare two GPMC backups, a GPMC backup and an active GPO, two active GPOs, within or across domains, or different versions of a single GPO at different times. In as little as three seconds, you can see when the virus entered your system or why your user is offline, and easily rollback to the GPO version that restores operations. GPOADmin offers complete Group Policy Management.