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NetIQ Group Policy Administrator

Administrators need a solution to meet the challenges of managing Group Policy's powerful capabilities. They must ensure that Group Policy Object (GPO) changes go through an approved change-and-release management process to minimize the risk of any adverse affects. But with only native tools, GPO changes are immediately replicated into the live Active Directory (AD) environment. Determining the effective settings that apply to a user and computer can be accomplished only once a GPO is in production.

With NetIQ Group Policy Administrator, you can manage GPO changes in a safe, offline environment without impacting the performance and availability of your live Active Directory environment. Its flexible and knowledge-rich reporting capabilities make it easy to increase management visibility into Group Policy actions, helping you comply with auditors and regulations.

NetIQ's Operational Change Control Solutions reduce the risk and cost associated with making operational changes. As a key part of the Operational Change Control offering, NetIQ Group Policy Administrator is the industry's leading solution for planning, controlling, troubleshooting and reporting on Group Policy changes. It enables administrators to meet the challenges associated with Group Policy's powerful capabilities, ensuring that Group Policy Object (GPO) changes go through an approved change and release management process. No other solution provides for the total offline management of Group Policy, allowing organizations to minimize risk and prevent service interruptions. No other solution provides for the total offline management of Group Policy, allowing organizations to avoid risk and prevent service interruptions.

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Key Features and Benefits

Offers secure offline repository by reducing the number of privileged accounts, offering secure offline Group Policy management without having to provide permissions within Active Directory.

Provides robust workflow and delegation model by allowing you to push the administration of Active Directory lower in the organization to safely involve all Group Policy stakeholders.

Reduces error risk when configuring GPOs by enabling you to configure settings once, and then replicate and apply those settings to GPOs in other domains and even other forests. This feature guarantees that your settings are configured correctly and reduces the risk of accidentally misconfiguring or losing a setting.

Provides advanced analysis and simulates the effect of modifying the Group Policy environment using online Resultant Set of Policy (RSoP) without having to first deploy the modified GPO.

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Key Technical Features

Live and offline RSoP analysis - Determines the set of effective policies that apply to a user when logged on to a specific machine in the live environment, simulates the impact of making changes without affecting production and even allows customers to troubleshoot issues by directly comparing two RSoP reports.

Centralized GPO control and synchronization across trust boundaries - Enables GPOs to be centrally controlled and synchronized from domain to domain, both trusted and untrusted and across forests—even disconnected forests.

After-hours GPO deployment - Uses Windows Task Scheduler to schedule unattended GPO roll-outs from the NetIQ Group Policy Administrator repository to AD.

Check-out, check-in and approval - Allows GPOs to be checked out before editing and allows only the person checking them out to edit. The objects can be checked back in after modification. Once complete, approval must be granted for the modification to be transferred to the live Active Directory environment.

Rollback features - Provides administrators with a one button rollback capacity to allow a prior version of a GPO to be returned to production.

Offline mirror - Provides a utility to automatically mirror production Active Directory Organizational Units and GPOs in an offline repository, making the offline environment look just like the online environment.

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