List of Group Policy Objects via PowerShell

Question

Does anyone know how to get a list of GPO (Group Policy Objects) from a Windows 2003 domain via PowerShell or some other way if PowerShell can’t do this?

I know that Server 2008 has some cmdlets for Group Polices but how can it be done for a Windows 2003 domain?

Looked on Google but no luck.

Thanks

Gary

Answer 1

try SDM software's group policy cmdlets SDM GPMC PowerShell Cmdlets 1.3

Answer 2

You can use the GPMC API to get a list of all GPOs:

$gpm = New-Object -ComObject GPMgmt.GPM
$constants = $gpm.GetConstants()
$domain = $env:USERDOMAIN
$gpmDomain =$gpm.GetDomain($domain ,"", $constants.UseAnyDC)
$gpmSearch = $gpm.CreateSearchCriteria()
$gpmDomain.SearchGPOs($gpmSearch)

Answer 3

In the end I went with this, used the GPOINFO tool. Not pretty but got what we needed:-

Write-Host "Counting GPO's"
$dom=[System.DirectoryServices.ActiveDirectory.Domain]::GetComputerDomain()
$PDC=$dom.PdcRoleOwner
gpotool.exe /dc:$PDC > GPOToolRep.txt
$GCReport=Get-Content -Path GPOToolRep.txt
$TextOut+="$($GCReport[4])`n

Thanks for all the responses....Gary