Environment Vista Enterprise+SP1 and RSAT Tools…

Activate the GPMC ‘Feature’
Control Panel | Programs and Features | [Click] ‘Turn Windows features on or off’ | Remote Server Administration Tools | Feature Administration Tools | Group Policy Management Tools

Download and Install the ‘Group Policy Management Console Sample Scripts’
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en

In previous versions of the GPMC.CHM ‘help’ file, there was a section within the Help file on programming the GPMC (the Group Policy Management Console Reference) and a section which listed every MS provided script and their usage syntax (Group Policy Management Console Scripting Samples).

In Vista (on my PC), the GPMC.CHM file is located within the C:\Windows\Help\mui\0409 folder. You can open it there directly or from within the GPMC console using the Help menu. When browsing to find script information, all you will see is a link to the ‘Group Policy Management Console Sample Scripts’ link (as noted above).

Installing the scripts creates the C:\Program Files\Microsoft Group Policy\GPMC Sample Scripts folder and places all the scripts there. However, there is no file describing the scripts and their syntax included. There is also no local file describing the GPMC programming interface that used to be included in the help file.

MS removed these for Vista/SW8 and, apparently, placed them up on MSDN. Here are the appropriate links (at least until Microsoft updates them).

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Group Policy Management Console Reference
(GPMC Object Model , GPMC Interfaces, Using Language Filtering in the GPMC Reference )
<http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa814150(VS.85).aspx>

Group Policy Management Console Scripting Samples
<http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa814151(VS.85).aspx>