Cleaning up unlinked Group Policy objects in Active Directory with Powershell
By: Leee Jeffries |
Just a quick script below to run through all unlinked GPO’s in a domain, back them up, export a report and then remove them.
Sweet and short but useful. (# Comment the remove line if you don’t want to remove any)
[cc lang=“Powershell”] Import-Module GroupPolicy $backupPath=”C:\Users\jeffrl-p\Desktop\Backup_GPO”
if (-Not(Test-Path -Path $backupPath)) { mkdir $backupPath }
| Get-GPO -All | Sort-Object displayname | Where-Object { If ( $_ | Get-GPOReport -ReportType XML | Select-String -NotMatch “” ) |
| { $backupReportPath = $backupPath + “\” + $_.DisplayName + “.html” Backup-GPO -Name $_.DisplayName -Path $backupPath Get-GPOReport -Name $_.DisplayName -ReportType Html -Path $backupReportPath $_.DisplayName | Out-File $backupPath + “UnLinked_GPO_List.txt” -Append $_.Displayname | remove-gpo -Confirm } } [/cc] |
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