So now what I want to do is demo the basic backup and restore operation.
So under group policy objects, if I a right click the group policy objects node, you'll notice I have
the backup all option.
And if I run that, it'll give me the option of setting a location and giving it a description.
And then it'll go ahead and backup all of those GPOs with that same description.
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
GPO here.
It's the kiosk user settings GPO that I used in a previous demo.
What I want to do is go ahead and back up this GPO.
So I'm going to go ahead and back it up.
And I'll say that this is the baseline kiosk user backup.
And it's going to go ahead and back it up to that folder.
Now, once the backup is completed, I'm going to go in and use GPL editor to make a change to the backup.
So if I go in under user configuration admin templates, start menu and taskbar and look and see.
I had this luck the taskbar setting enabled.
And I have prevent access to shut down restart sleep and hibernate enabled.
I'm going to go ahead and set this to disabled.
Let's say that was my change.
And I made an inadvertent change that I didn't want.
So now the policy has been set to disabled.
And if I go ahead and refresh the report and bring that up, you'll see that it's now set to disabled.
So what I can do now is come in and restore from backup to get back to the way I want it to be.
And there's a couple of ways I can do that.
One is I can come right click the GPO and say Restore from backup.
The other way is I can right click the group policy objects container and bring up my manage backups
dialog.
And what you'll see here is now it's showing the the kiosk user settings baseline.
I can come in here and view those settings.
And it's going to give me an option of how I want to view it.
It views it as an HTML file.
So I'm going to go ahead and shows i.e. to view the settings.
And it essentially what we're seeing here is an HTML settings report of the GPO.
As you might see it in PMC.
And once that comes up, I can see that within the backup that remove and prevent access to shut down,
restart, sleep and hibernate is still enabled.
So I'm viewing the backup now.
And I'm going to say, okay, that's the backup I want.
I want to go ahead and restore.
And it'll ask me, Do you want to restore the selected backup?
Now it knows the GPO, from which it was the bay.
The backup was created.
So it's going to use the GPO to restore into.
So it's going to say, okay.
Says it succeeded on the restore.
If I go ahead and close this.
Come back to my kiosk user settings GPO.
Click on refresh to make sure I get the most recent report.
And you come in under the settings and you'll see that this is set back to enabled.
So essentially I have been able to using the backup, I've been able to roll back the change that I
made on this GPO, which is a really handy feature to have.
And again, I highly recommend that you use this feature to back up your GPOs on a regular basis whenever
you make a change to a GPO.
Just come on in here and say Back up before you make the change and it'll save you a lot of grief in
the long run in terms of managing that process.
You can also use PowerShell, which I'll show you again in a later module to automate backups of GPOs.
So hopefully that helps kind of give an overview of the backup and restore process.