Tuesday, July 25, 2017

Mirroring AD OU trees including GPOs - the PoSh way

Hello all.

In your AD, there might be an OU tree for production purposes. There might be a second tree for testing purposes. Now you need a third tree for evaluation purposes. That means copying all OUs from one of the existing trees and re-linking all GPOs linked to the source.

I recently had this requirement for an OU structure 6 levels deep with more than 100 linked GPOs. Hard to believe I would do this manually, so I fired up my ISE and came out with this module:

CopyGPOLink

Since the description in the gallery is somewhat crispy, here's the full help: