Quest® Group Policy Manager™ provides Group Policy change management solution that may be better poised to meet the needs of administrators who have a need for:

• A more comprehensive and flexible management console that provides management of not only GPOs, but also Scope of Managements (SOM), WMI Filters, and Templates in the widest range of AD deployment scenarios including multi-domain/multi-forest environments (trusted or non-trusted).
• A granular and comprehensive delegation model with a multi-level approval workflow.
• A user-friendly (drag-and-drop) method of transitioning GPOs from one domain/forest to another.
• Advanced difference reports to compare multiple versions of the same GPO, Scopes of Management, WMI Filter, and Templates.
• The ability to leverage and complement native Microsoft technology, including the Group Policy Management Console (GPMC), to strengthen infrastructure investments
• An archive for all GPO settings into a reliable, scalable data store · A way to quickly roll back GPO, Links, WMI Filters, and Templates changes, in the event a change has unexpected results
• Leveraging of the Microsoft Windows PowerShell to automate Group Policy Management tasks.

Key Benefits

• Control Test—Greatly reduces the number of incorrect or unapproved changes by giving administrators the ability to export GPOs to a test environment in order to validate changes.
• Group Policy Objects Compare—Provides historical reporting, which allows the tracking of changes made to GPOs, Links, WMI Filters,and Templates over time. It also allows the comparison of different versions of GPOs.
• Safe Update—Provides reliable GPO, Links, WMI Filters and Templates version control. GPO editors can check out GPOs, edit and test them offline, and check them back in for review and approval.
• Rapid Rollback—Quickly revert back to a working GPO in the event that a GPO policy setting, link, security and WMI filter change has an undesired effect. In seconds, the environment can be running smoothly again.