How to Backup and Restore Your SBS and Default Group Policies

posted by  sfiroz (90)  11 months ago (blogs.technet.com)

[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Wayne McIntyre]

In SBS 2003 we have the 2 default policies just like any Windows 2003 server which are the default domain, and default domain controller policy. Additionally by default SBS 2003 has an additional 7 Group Policies, 3 more when you add R2 Components for WSUS, and a Vista policy when you do the SBS Vista Update. It is often a good idea to backup these policies in case they are ever accidentally deleted or lost due to other reasons. Here are the steps to backup and restore these policies. Backup Procedure: