help! i made a gpo and locked myself out :D

[patrichek]

hi guys,
i hope someone can give me some advice here. I made a gpo and linked it to our domain and ended up locking me and everyone else out of active directory and all other admin tools. I can't get back in to remove the policy either....any way to fix this besides restoring active directory from backup?
I'm working remotely so i can't restart and take the dc offline from here.
thanks in advance!

 

[patrichek]

well i ended up restoring from backup. the bad part was resetting the local admin password.
everything seems ok now, what a bonehead move that was

 

[Japskunk72]

cant you go into a client that has the active directory Client tools and login localy, then edit the GPO from there? or load a default one in its place?

 

[jtb]

not always... ;-)

JTB
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