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GPOADmin 5.17 - User Guide

Introducing Quest GPOADmin Configuring GPOADmin Using GPOADmin
Connecting to the Version Control system Navigating the GPOADmin console Search folders Accessing the GPMC extension Configuring user preferences Working with the live environment Working with controlled objects (version control root)
Creating a custom container hierarchy Selecting security, levels of approval, and notification options Viewing the differences between objects Copying/pasting objects Proposing the creation of controlled objects Merging GPOs Restoring an object to a previous version Restoring links to a previous version Managing your links with search and replace Linking GPOs to multiple Scopes of Management Managing compliance issues automatically with remediation rules Validating GPOs Managing GPO revisions with lineage Setting when users can modify objects Working with registered objects Working with available objects Working with checked out objects Working with objects pending approval and deployment
Checking compliance Editing objects Synchronizing GPOs Exporting and importing
Creating Reports Appendix: Windows PowerShell Commands Appendix: GPOADmin Event Log Appendix: GPOADmin Backup and Recovery Procedures Appendix: Customizing your workflow Appendix: GPOADmin Silent Installation Commands Appendix: Configuring Gmail for Notifications Appendix: Registering GPOADmin for Office 365 Exchange Online Appendix: GPOADmin with SQL Replication About Us

Editing the Version Control server configuration store

Users logged on with an account that is a member of the GPOADmin administrators group can edit the type of configuration store.

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Right-click the forest, and select Re-configure Version Control server.
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In the Select a Configuration Store dialog, select Active Directory, AD LDS, or SQL Server for your configuration storage location.

The best practice is to use AD LDS as the configuration store. However, in large environments, SQL server is the recommended option. Quest uses the following criteria to define large environments:

These are guidelines and should not be considered as an exhaustive list.

NOTE: To protect your environment from a SQL Injection attack, you can mark which SQL statement inputs are not permitted. See Editing the Version Control server properties. By default, all of the inputs are marked as not permitted.

If you allow these inputs, malicious code may be inserted in a SQL statement resulting in security vulnerabilities.

Replacing the Version Control server configuration settings

In some cases, you may want to keep the majority of the Version Control server settings the same throughout the deployment and have only select settings unique for each server.

If this is the case, you can copy the settings from an existing sever and then update where required rather than having to enter all the settings required during a reconfiguration.

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Right-click the forest, and select Copy Server Configuration.
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Right-click the forest, and select Options to update where required.

Migrating from AD/AD LDS to a SQL configuration store

A configuration utility (GPOADmin.ConfigMig.exe) is available in the GPOADmin install directory that allows you to migrate the configuration store to SQL from an AD/AD LDS. You can migrate all objects or specify users, custom folders, keywords, email templates, roles, domains, containers, version control items, scheduled deployments, synchronization targets and synchronization results data as required.

NOTE:  

The output from the configuration utility is written to the screen as well as to a Migration.txt file located in the install directory.

Before running the configuration utility, you need to configure the version control server to use SQL as the configuration store. See Editing the Version Control server configuration store to change the storage from AD/AD LDS to SQL.

SQL Injection inserts malicious code into SQL statements which can lead to security vulnerabilities. To protect your environment from a SQL Injection attack, you can mark SQL statement inputs that are not permitted. See Editing the Version Control server properties. By default, we have marked the following inputs as not permitted. If you allow these inputs, malicious code may be inserted in a SQL statement resulting in security vulnerabilities:

Table 8. SQL inputs

:

Denotes the end of a SQL query. Allowing this character can permit malicious queries to be included in user input.

--

All trailing input is interpreted as a comment until the new line character.

/*

The character combination used to denote the start of a block comment. All trailing input is interpreted as a comment until the comment end delimiter.

*/

The character combination used to denote the end of a block comment. Input between the comment start delimiter and the comment end delimiter is interpreted as a comment.

xp_

Extended procedures are routines residing in DLLs that function similarly to regular stored procedures. The extended stored procedure function is run under the security context of Microsoft SQL Server.

\AUX

Generally, the AUX port on a PC is computer port 1 (COM1), which is the first serial port with a preconfigured assignment for serial devices. File paths can be constructed using this input.

\CLOCK$

The system clock. File paths can be constructed using this input.

\COM1

The first Communications port. File paths can be constructed using this input.

\COM2

The second Communications port. File paths can be constructed using this input.

\COM3

The third Communications port. File paths can be constructed using this input.

\COM4

The forth Communications port. File paths can be constructed using this input.

\COM5

The fifth Communications port. File paths can be constructed using this input.

\COM6

The sixth Communications port. File paths can be constructed using this input.

\COM7

The seventh Communications port. File paths can be constructed using this input.

\COM8

The eighth Communications port. File paths can be constructed using this input.

\CON

A common device name for the keyboard and screen. File paths can be constructed using this input.

\CONFIG$

A configuration information file. File paths can be constructed using this input.

\LPT1

The first line print terminal. File paths can be constructed using this input.

\LPT2

The second line print terminal. File paths can be constructed using this input.

\LPT3

The third line print terminal. File paths can be constructed using this input.

\LPT4

The fourth line print terminal. File paths can be constructed using this input.

\LPT5

The fifth line print terminal. File paths can be constructed using this input.

\LPT6

The sixth line print terminal. File paths can be constructed using this input.

\LPT7

The seventh line print terminal. File paths can be constructed using this input.

\LPT8

The eighth line print terminal. File paths can be constructed using this input.

\NUL

The NUL port. File paths can be constructed using this input.

\PRN

The DOS name for the first connected parallel port. File paths can be constructed using this input.

Before migrating the configuration store, Quest suggests that you test the migration to ensure that all objects migrate according to your specifications. To validate the migration, run the command with the /t option. This gathers all the information that will be committed to the SQL database but does not commit any changes.

Changing the Service Account

To change the GPOADmin service account in an existing deployment, consider the following:

To bring GPOs back into compliance complete the one of the following:

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