Deleting Unused GPOs - Windows 2000

[Guest]

hi,

I'm trying to document our Active Directory GPOs. When I run the
GPOTOOL.EXE, it shows up far more GPOs than I'd thought we previously had.

What I'm seeing are GPOs that Administrators have created and deleted, but
they have not chosen the option "Remove the link and delete the Group Policy
Object permanently"

I can identify our Active GPOs, but I'm unable to find and delete these
unused GPOs.

Is anyone able to help please?

Thanks,

Padraic

 

[Steven L Umbach]

You can use AD Users and Computers. For instance for the domain container
select properties/Group Policy - add and then select all in the Group Policy
link page. You then can delete the Group Policies you no longer need. I
would suggest that you do a backup of the System State of a domain
controller just in case you end up finding that you need one of those
polices after you delete it. --- Steve

 

[lforbes]

You can use AD Users and Computers. For instance for the
domain container
select properties/Group Policy - add and then select all in
the Group Policy
link page. You then can delete the Group Policies you no
longer need. I
would suggest that you do a backup of the System State of a
domain
controller just in case you end up finding that you need one
of those
polices after you delete it. --- Steve

Hi,

I just did this.

Go to Microsofts Website and download the Group Policy Management
Console
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...24-8CBD-4B35-9272-DD3CBFC81887&displaylang=en

It takes a bit to get use to. However, what it DOES do is show you all
the Group Policies you have in a list on the left. On the right you
can see where they are linked to.

This is great to use to make sure you are not deleting a GPO that is
currently linked to something. You can delete GPO’s here too.

Cheers,

Lara

 

[Dave]

Run the findunlinkedgpos.wsf script. This will list all unlinked gpo's.
Then you can run the deletegpo.wsf script against the list.

Hi,

I just did this.

Go to Microsofts Website and download the Group Policy Management
Console
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...24-8CBD-4B35-9272-DD3CBFC81887&displaylang=en

It takes a bit to get use to. However, what it DOES do is show you all
the Group Policies you have in a list on the left. On the right you
can see where they are linked to.

This is great to use to make sure you are not deleting a GPO that is
currently linked to something. You can delete GPO's here too.

Cheers,

Lara

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