Detecting Unlinked GPOs
Unlinked GPOs are just simply policies that aren’t applied to any OU or site. These policies aren’t
$BackupPath="C:\temp\GPOBackups"
Get-GPO -All | Sort-Object displayname |
Where-Object { If ( $_ | Get-GPOReport -ReportType XML |
Select-String -NotMatch "<LinksTo>" )
{
Backup-GPO -name $_.DisplayName -path $BackupPath
$_.DisplayName | Out-File $BackupPath\unlinked.txt -Append
#Outputting the results to the screen
$_.Displayname | Select-Object DisplayName
#Uncomment this when you're ready to delete all the ones the script finds..
# $_.Displayname | remove-gpo
}
}