I have no "Copy" option using GPMC

[Brian Polizzi]

We're running a single Windows 2000 domain, native, with no 2003
servers. AD is in place with few GPO's configured to date. I setup
GPMC on a Windows XP SP1 machine with .NET installed. I'm a domain
admin.

I can view, edit, and delete my GPOs, but I can't copy, export, or
import them. When I right-click, I get no option to do so. In fact,
I can't find the options anywhere, even greyed out. I modified the
permissions on the GPO, ensuring that I had FULL CONTROL over it, to
no avail.

Any insight you can offer would be greatly appreciated. We're adding
several new offices, each of which will require separate, uniquely
modified instances of the same GPOs. I don't want all the GPO
instances to be affected when I make a single change, whether it be to
the GPO itself or to the permissions, and I thought copying would be
the best option, especially since it seems "unlinking" them doesn't
quite do the trick.

Brian

 

[Bobby Davies]

Actually you have to open the group policy object folder in the gpmc, all
group policy objects are listed here. Then right click on the one you want
to backup etc and you should have the options then.

Thanks