Changing Permissions on All GPOs In Domain
How-to automate changing permissions on ALL GPOs in a domain via script. Microsoft provides sample scripts for changing permissions on all GPOs. The steps are outlined below describe how to change permissions on all GPO objects in a domain.
- Download and install the Group Policy Management Console
- Download and install the Group Policy Management Sample Scripts
- Open a command prompt, change directory to the newly install sample script folder and run the update permissions script. You need to run these scripts with the Windows cscript utility:
cd "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Group Policy\GPMC Sample Scripts" cscript GrantPermissionOnAllGPOs.wsf "Some Group" /Permission:FullEdit /domain:yourdomain.com
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- Select “Y” at the following prompt, this may take awhile depending on how many GPO objects you have configured in your environment:
- Done.