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  Hey, Scripting Guy! I need to be able to connect to two Group Policy objects (GPOs) in Active Directory and make an offline copy of the GPOs using Windows PowerShell 2.0 so that I can compare the two objects. I know I can do this using the Group Policy Management Console, but I have several hundred GPOs in my domain and I do not have the ti...

  Hey, Scripting Guy! I need to use the Microsoft Group Policy cmdlets and Windows PowerShell 2.0 to test Active Directory replication. Know how? -- RG   Hello RG, Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson here. I had an Office Communicator conversation last night with my friend Brett in Sydney, Australia. He is my Tim Tam and ANZAC biscuit co...

  Hey, Scripting Guy! I want to know how to use the Group Policy cmdlets in Windows PowerShell to back up and to restore Group Policy objects (GPOs), and I have heard that there are Group Policy cmdlets in Windows 7. Can you help me? -- GJ   Hello GJ, Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson here. It is hot and humid in Charlotte. The humidity...

  Hey, Scripting Guy! I need to work with Group Policy Objects (GPOs) by using a Windows PowerShell script. I understand there are new Group Policy cmdlets in Windows 7, but when I use the Get-Command cmdlet, I do not see any cmdlets. Is this a Release-to-Web (RTW) feature, or did it not make the cut for the final product? -- CT   Hello...

  Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson here. One of the cool things about Windows PowerShell is that if you do not like the way it does things, you can change it. If there is something that is lacking in the released product, you can often find it in a module that someone has written and posted to the web. There are several good modules available...