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Select the Restore Option and select the appropriate option for Actions (GPP) or Settings (Environmental, USV). You can now select finish and process to importing the configuration files you just created. Note my GPO below uses %UserName%, WEM converts this to #UserName# Looking closely, the keen eye may notice that the WEM import will convert an existing variable to a WEM hashtag value in the USV pathing. Secondly, note that any supported environmental and USV (folder redirection) settings have also been pulled Note in the below screen dump, any GPP based items have been successfully pulled from my GPO backup files You can now view a summary of what’s been importedĪ few cool things have happened at this point.

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If your ZIP file is in the correct format, you should have a nice clean migration with confirmation shown as per below I cannot see a time where you would ever want to simply overwrite – I would always want to sanity check what I am pulling in Select the Migrate button and choose your ZIP fileĬhoose the convert option and give your job a name. The new Migrate button is available on the home ribbon next to the usual backup and restore suspects shown above. This will dump the zip file in the default upload folder You will first need to upload your ZIP file via the HTML client.

Nothing has been enabled, no templates or hydration kits imported Logging into to the WEM Cloud Service, I have created a new blank Configuration Set for demo purposes. In the below example, I am exporting two GPO objects, these contain a load of preferences and environmental settings that WEM could also process, along with folder redirection settings.

Import the XML file based actions and settings.

Choose whether the import everything or create an import file (using the standard VUEM xml format).

Import the ZIP file into the WEM service using the new Migrate option.

(Make sure your backups are only one folder deep in the zip file)

Backup your existing GPO or GPO objects into a single Zip File.

The process is a simple one to drive, but pretty complicated behind the scenes. Last week marked the release of a new feature in the WEM Cloud Service which allows a direct import of a GPO backup file (or files) into the WEM service.

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Moving policies full of printers, drive maps, logon scripts, files and folder options along with registry keys, be it single or collection based, is typically the longest part of getting WEM to really shine in an environment. A consistent challenge when beginning the adoption of WEM services into an existing environment, is the analysis and migration of existing GPP and GPO settings into the WEM way of processing.

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