You can do that, if you just want the original generic GPOs. You need to create a mapping table that maps the attributes of the source domain to the target domain.
Cheers Ken -----Original Message----- From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] Sent: Thursday, 7 January 2010 2:57 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Windows Update failure Unfortunately, no... this is a home domain. I have my data dirs on the file server and my exchange server backed up, but haven't been backing up the DC's... I wonder if it's possible to export the GPO's from a new domain and import them in.. -sc -----Original Message----- From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:k...@adopenstatic.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2010 9:45 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Windows Update failure Do you have a backup? You could restore that to another environment, then use GPMC to do an export and then import of your GPO objects. Cheers Ken -----Original Message----- From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] Sent: Thursday, 7 January 2010 3:38 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Windows Update failure Thanks Martin.. that indeed did allow the system to use MS update. Now to figure out how to fix my broken/missing GPO files. Any thoughts as to how to replace the default GPO objects that should be there, such as "default domain controller policy", etc...? -sc > -----Original Message----- > From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:mblackst...@gmail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, January 05, 2010 10:10 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: Windows Update failure > > Oh, and you will probably need to restart the automatic updates > service afterwards > > -----Original Message----- > From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:mblackst...@gmail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, January 05, 2010 7:05 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: Windows Update failure > > You should be able to remove the offending entries from the registry > Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 > > [- > HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows > Update] > > [- > HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows > Update\AU] > > -----Original Message----- > From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] > Sent: Tuesday, January 05, 2010 6:18 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: Windows Update failure > > Ya I think so. I killed the lnks to the offending GPO object, but now > the DC's still have the settings lingering on them, and I don't see > the WSUS stuff in the local policy MMC snap in. So I figured I'd edit > the old WSUS policy GPO to turn all the settings back to "off",... and > that's when I found out that the polices don't seem to exist anywhere. > > I hear ya on the time at home thing.... as a matter of fact that's > probably why the DC's hadn't been updated for a while and I really > hadn't paid attention to the event logs. > > Bad home admin....:( ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
