Merging and Reducing Existing GPOs
Netwrix PolicyPak ships with the PolicyPak Group Policy Merge Utility. It is designed to help you take advantage of the PolicyPak Admin Templates Manager, as well as combine multiple collections within one single GPO. Many users want a way to reduce the number of GPOs they have, and the PolicyPak Group Policy Merge Utility allows you to do just that. Identify the source GPOs that contain Microsoft ADM/ADMX settings (known as REG.POL settings), and then specify a target GPO, to create a collection.
See the Reduce GPOs (and/or export them for use with PolicyPak Cloud or with MDM) topic for more information.
A secondary use for the PolicyPak Group Policy Merge Utility is to merge multiple GPOs into thePolicyPak Admin Templates Manager format, and then export the collection for use with PolicyPak Cloud or an MDM service. This way, you can take a set of real Group Policy settings and export them quickly and easily into one export file, which is uploaded into PolicyPak Cloud or an MDM service for use later.
To run the tool, locate the downloadable ISO file in the PolicyPak Extras folder, as seen below.
Currently, the PolicyPak Group Policy Merge Tool can only migrate GPOs containing ADM/ADMX (REG.POL) items. In the future, more formats will be available for other scenarios.