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Exporting/Importing Local GPO in Windows 7

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I have 10 laptops with Win7 Pro. They are for my field clients. They do not connect to a domain. I created a local user account (same across all 10 laptops), and then created a local GPO for that account.
Is there any way I can export, then import that local GPO from laptop to laptop without creating a new one from scratch for each laptop?
There are 70 changes to the local GPO file, and it's really time consuming doing each laptop.
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See the following article:
How can I export local Group Policy settings made in gpedit.msc
http://www.frickelsoft.net/blog/?p=31
Shaon Shan| TechNet Subscriber Support in forum| If you have any feedback on our support, please contact tngfb@microsoft.com- Marked as answer by MedicalSMicrosoft contingent staff, Moderator Friday, October 8, 2010 2:56 AM
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Hi,
Copy the contents of c:\windows\system32\grouppolicy from your reference machine to the other machines. Note that this is a hidden folder so you'll need to modify your folder view options to see it.
Thanks,
Guy- Marked as answer by MedicalSMicrosoft contingent staff, Moderator Friday, October 8, 2010 2:56 AM
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Hi,
Copy the contents of c:\windows\system32\grouppolicy from your reference machine to the other machines. Note that this is a hidden folder so you'll need to modify your folder view options to see it.
Thanks,
Guy- Marked as answer by MedicalSMicrosoft contingent staff, Moderator Friday, October 8, 2010 2:56 AM
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See the following article:
How can I export local Group Policy settings made in gpedit.msc
http://www.frickelsoft.net/blog/?p=31
Shaon Shan| TechNet Subscriber Support in forum| If you have any feedback on our support, please contact tngfb@microsoft.com- Marked as answer by MedicalSMicrosoft contingent staff, Moderator Friday, October 8, 2010 2:56 AM
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Incase anyone is wondering, this works on Windows 2008 R2 also. Just ensure that the value assigned to version in C:\windows\system32\grouppolicy\gpt.ini is larger on the target system than it is on the source system.
Brad- Proposed as answer by jeffbowMicrosoft employee Thursday, February 5, 2015 6:19 PM
- Unproposed as answer by jeffbowMicrosoft employee Thursday, February 5, 2015 6:19 PM
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A simpler/supported method is to use the LocalGPO tool that is included with the Microsoft Security Compliance Manager described here: http://microsoft.com/scm
LocalGPO allows you to export Local Policy settings (INF, POL, Audit, firewall, etc) to a GPO Backup... you can then use LocalGPO together with the GPO Backup to apply settings to other computers. The latest version also creates what is called a GPOPack... which lets you apply settings to other computers with a single double-click:
- User LocalGPO to create a GPOPack based on the local policy configuration of your reference computer
- Copy the GPOPack to the local drive of your target computer.
- Double-click the GPOPack.wsf inside the GPOPack
All settings configured in the local policy of the reference computer will be configured on the target computer in just a few seconds.
Hope his helps!
- Proposed as answer by BDS74 Thursday, September 29, 2011 8:40 AM
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