Exporting and importing policies
| Article:HOWTO55193 | | | Created: 2011-06-29 | | | Updated: 2011-12-17 | | | Article URL http://www.symantec.com/docs/HOWTO55193 |
You can export existing policies to a .dat file. All the settings that are associated with the policy are automatically exported.
For example, you may want to export a policy for use at a different site. Once you export a file, you can import it from the other site and apply it to a group or only to a location. You can export a shared or non-shared policy for a specific location in the Clients page.
You can import a policy file on the Policies page and apply it to a group or only to a location.
See Performing tasks that are common to all security policies.
To export a policy in the Policies page
To export a shared or non-shared policy in the Clients page
On the Clients page, under Clients, select the group for which you want to export a policy.
On the Policies tab, uncheck Inherit policies and settings from parent group "group name".
You must disable inheritance for this group. If you do not uncheck inheritance, you cannot export a policy.
Under Location-specific Policies and Settings, scroll to find the name of the location whose policy you want to export.
Locate the specific policy for the location that you want to export.
To the right of the policy, click Tasks, and then click Export Policy.
In the Export Policy dialog box, browse to the folder into which you want to export the policy.
To import a policy
On the Policies page, under Policies, click the type of policy that you want to import.
In the policy type Policies pane, click the policy that you want to import.
On the Policies page, under Tasks, click Import a policy type Policy.
In the Import Policy dialog box, browse to the policy file that you want to import, and then click Import.
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