Split Group Policy

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I have a couple different customers, running Windows Server 2003, with a very
large "Default Domain Policy", hundreds of entries for both Computers and
Users. I now need to split apart this GPO. For example, one customer has
about a 100 non-Office97 settings (Windows interface, IE, etc.), and then
another 100 settings pertaining to Office97. I need to extract the
non-Office97 Users settings into a new policy. Additionally, there are other
settings that need to be weeded out from the "Default Domain Policy", as many
of these settings date back to the early days of Windows 2000 Server.

Obviously, it would be a stupid waste of time to re-enter all the
non-Office97 settings into a new GPO one at a time. But I can't find any way
to export/import using an editable format. I wasted 8 hours trying to
achieve this with Backup/Export GPMC function, editing the xml and
registry.pol files, to no avail.

Please help!
---Jay R O

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