Deleting a GPO

This recipe shows how to delete a GPO. As part of this recipe, any GPO links that are present are first deleted to ensure that no stale references occur in multi-domain environments.

Getting ready

To delete a GPO, sign in to a system with the Group Policy Management feature installed with an account that is either of the following:

• A member of the Domain Admins group
• The current owner of the GPO
• Delegated the Edit settings, delete, modify security permission on the GPO

How to do it...

This recipe shows two ways to delete a GPO:

• Using Group Policy Management
• Using Windows PowerShell

Using Group Policy Management

To delete a GPO, perform the following steps:

1. Press Start.
2. Search for Group Policy Management and click its search result, or run gpmc.msc. The Group Policy Management window appears.
3. In the left navigation pane, expand the Forest node.
4. Expand the Domains node, and then navigate to the domain...