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So now what I want to do is demo the basic backup and restore operation.

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So under group policy objects, if I a right click the group policy objects node, you'll notice I have

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the backup all option.

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And if I run that, it'll give me the option of setting a location and giving it a description.

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And then it'll go ahead and backup all of those GPOs with that same description.

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But let's for the sake of this demo, let's go ahead and go into one of our GPOs and we've got this

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GPO here.

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It's the kiosk user settings GPO that I used in a previous demo.

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What I want to do is go ahead and back up this GPO.

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So I'm going to go ahead and back it up.

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And I'll say that this is the baseline kiosk user backup.

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And it's going to go ahead and back it up to that folder.

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Now, once the backup is completed, I'm going to go in and use GPL editor to make a change to the backup.

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So if I go in under user configuration admin templates, start menu and taskbar and look and see.

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I had this luck the taskbar setting enabled.

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And I have prevent access to shut down restart sleep and hibernate enabled.

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I'm going to go ahead and set this to disabled.

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Let's say that was my change.

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And I made an inadvertent change that I didn't want.

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So now the policy has been set to disabled.

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And if I go ahead and refresh the report and bring that up, you'll see that it's now set to disabled.

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So what I can do now is come in and restore from backup to get back to the way I want it to be.

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And there's a couple of ways I can do that.

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One is I can come right click the GPO and say Restore from backup.

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The other way is I can right click the group policy objects container and bring up my manage backups

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dialog.

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And what you'll see here is now it's showing the the kiosk user settings baseline.

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I can come in here and view those settings.

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And it's going to give me an option of how I want to view it.

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It views it as an HTML file.

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So I'm going to go ahead and shows i.e. to view the settings.

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And it essentially what we're seeing here is an HTML settings report of the GPO.

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As you might see it in PMC.

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And once that comes up, I can see that within the backup that remove and prevent access to shut down,

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restart, sleep and hibernate is still enabled.

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So I'm viewing the backup now.

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And I'm going to say, okay, that's the backup I want.

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I want to go ahead and restore.

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And it'll ask me, Do you want to restore the selected backup?

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Now it knows the GPO, from which it was the bay.

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The backup was created.

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So it's going to use the GPO to restore into.

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So it's going to say, okay.

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Says it succeeded on the restore.

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If I go ahead and close this.

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Come back to my kiosk user settings GPO.

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Click on refresh to make sure I get the most recent report.

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And you come in under the settings and you'll see that this is set back to enabled.

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So essentially I have been able to using the backup, I've been able to roll back the change that I

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made on this GPO, which is a really handy feature to have.

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And again, I highly recommend that you use this feature to back up your GPOs on a regular basis whenever

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you make a change to a GPO.

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Just come on in here and say Back up before you make the change and it'll save you a lot of grief in

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the long run in terms of managing that process.

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You can also use PowerShell, which I'll show you again in a later module to automate backups of GPOs.

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So hopefully that helps kind of give an overview of the backup and restore process.