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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 14, 2012
Filed:
May. 12, 2009
Ullattil Shaji, Sammamish, WA (US);
Rahul Gupta, Bellevue, WA (US);
Derek C. Y. Cheng, Issaquah, WA (US);
William J. Whalen, Seattle, WA (US);
Carey Tanner, Gold Bar, WA (US);
Mike A. Treit, Jr., Bellevue, WA (US);
Ullattil Shaji, Sammamish, WA (US);
Rahul Gupta, Bellevue, WA (US);
Derek C. Y. Cheng, Issaquah, WA (US);
William J. Whalen, Seattle, WA (US);
Carey Tanner, Gold Bar, WA (US);
Mike A. Treit, Jr., Bellevue, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A system and method for managing group policy objects in a network, including interfaces that allow access by programs or a user interface component to functions of a group policy management console that performs management tasks on group policy objects and other related objects. The interfaces abstract the underlying data storage and retrieval, thereby facilitating searching for objects, and providing the ability to delegate, view, change and permissions on those objects, and check and save those permissions. Modeling and other test simulations are facilitated by other interfaces. Other interfaces provide dynamic and interactive features, such as to convey progress and rich status messages, and allow canceling of an ongoing operation. Still other interfaces provide methods for operating on group policy related data, including group policy object backup, restore, import, copy and create methods, and methods for linking group policy objects to scope of management objects.