Creating GPOs from a script

[rikjs]

Hello,

I have a bunch of folders with .msi packages in a folder that need to be added as GPOs. I'd like to use a script that goes through each folder and adds the .msi package as a GPO. Can anyone help?

Thanks, Richard.

[RTHJr]

Do you mean Group Policy Software Installer (GPSI) that is within a GPO? .msi packages cannot become GPOs. That would have to be a script that actually manipulates the policy settings within a GPO and I seem to have read up on something in that general nature a few days back. Let me look around.

[pago]

The only tool I know to manipulate settings of GPOs is this one:
SDMSOFTWARE / GPEXPERT® Group Policy Automation Engine (GPAE)
http://www.sdmsoftware.com/group_policy_scripting.php
"Software Installation" is listed as "Key Feature" so it should do the job...

[RTHJr]

Yeah, that is the tool.

[pieterjd]

Is there a way to do this in powershell with the grouppolicy module shipping with server 2008R2?

I've been fooling around with exporting a gpo to xml and parsing the xml but no luck so far.

Pieter-Jan