moving policies

[William Stokes]

Hello,

Is it possible to move group policies and domain structure from on domain to
another in native Win2000 server AD? I built a test environment and I would
like to move/copy our existing policies and OU's to the test domain. The
test domain is in it's own forest and in separate physical network

Thanks
-Will

 

[Jorge_de_Almeida_Pinto]

Hello,

Is it possible to move group policies and domain structure
from on domain to
another in native Win2000 server AD? I built a test
environment and I would
like to move/copy our existing policies and OU's to the test
domain. The
test domain is in it's own forest and in separate physical
network

Thanks
-Will

For the GPOs use can use the GPMC
(http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/gpmc/migrgpo.mspx)

To export the OU structure you can use LDIFDE. Type LDIFDE /? for help
on using the commandline options

To export the OU structure including the GPO links you can use:

LDIFDE -f OU_STRUCTURE_OUTPUT.TXT -d DC=<DOMAIN>,DC=<TLD> -r
(objectClass=organizationalUnit) -p subtree -l
distinguishedName,OU,gPLink

Open de output and replace the domain if applicable. I don’t remember
anymore but also read how to restore the GPO links to the OU structure
in the new domain. I’m sure the doc I pointed out tells how to do that

Cheers,