Netpro GPOAdmin

With Group Policy regulating everything from critical business processes and security settings to individual workstations and printers, managing Group Policy Objects (GPOs) can become time-consuming and expensive. NetPro’s award-winning GPOADmin boosts the Microsoft Group Policy Management Console (GPMC) so you can automate critical administration tasks. Verify and compare changes made to a GPO over time or confirm the consistency of GPO settings between different GPOs. Compare two GPMC backups, a GPMC backup and an active GPO, two active GPOs, within or across domains, or varying versions of a single GPO at different times. And drive unparalleled control and efficiency into your Windows servers and desktops.

Features

• Seamlessly integrates with the Microsoft Group Policy Management Console (GPMC).
• Provides improved auditing for changes to GPOs.
• Enables advanced, side-by-side GPO version comparisons.
• Features automated GPO version control.
• Hides pre-production GPOs so only desired administrators can view and test them.
• Provides GPO locking to prevent unwanted changes to production GPOs.
• Enables GPO backup and link restoration.
• Provides GPO check-in/check-out to prevent simultaneous editing conflicts.
• Allows advanced GPO searching and reporting:
  • Specific GPO settings
  • Unlinked GPOs
  • Cross domain linked GPOs
  • Ineffective GPOs

Benefits

• Closes the gap in the native GPO management processes by automating critical tasks.
• Helps prove regulatory compliance with advanced GPO auditing and tracking.
• Integrates with existing Microsoft tools, eliminating the need to learn a third-party interface.
• Drives availability with advanced backup and rollback capabilities.
• Saves valuable time and reduces risk of outages by eliminating scripts and manual processes.
• Reduces total cost of ownership (TCO) by centralizing desktop management.
• Simplifies the enforcement of enterprise-wide business policies by enabling streamlined GPO control.
• Drives network security by restricting access to production GPOs.

Business Case

As one of the most robust configuration tools in your Windows infrastructure, Group Policy helps drive a secure and compliant networking environment.  And effective auditing of Group Policy reduces security breaches, eases regulatory compliance requirements, and increases the overall reliability of your Windows infrastructure.  Award-winning GPOADmin integrates seamlessly with current business processes to ensure critical tasks such as version control and auditing are performed efficiently and effectively.  Plus, GPOADmin automatically ensures that all GPO versions and edits are recorded, creating a log of each setting change as well as the individual who executed the change for audit and compliance reporting purposes.