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How Create a Starter Group Policy Object

Server 2008 Group Policy Management Console allows creation of Starter GPO. It can be used to preload / prepopulate GPO settings into a GPO as a baseline.

Create a Starter GPO

  1. Open Group Policy Management Console on Server 2008
  2. Under domain, select the Starter GPO container
  3. Click “Create Start GPOs Folder” on the right pane
  4. Right click on the Starter GPO container and choose New
  5. Right click the GPO, choose Edit to open the GPO in the Group Policy Starter GPO Editor.
  6. Once configured, close the Group Policy Starter GPO Editor.
  7. To backup the starter GPO, right click the recently created starter GPO and choose Backup.