Manage Group Policy more efficiently than ever before
Mainstream support for Advanced Group Policy Management ended in 2018, and extended support ended in April 2026, leaving organizations without ongoing patches, security updates, or product support for a Tier 0 control surface. Any new vulnerabilities discovered in AGPM will remain permanently unpatched, increasing risk over time.
AGPM was not designed for the scale and complexity of today’s hybrid environments. Its centralized administration model required teams to either grant broad permissions to a small set of administrators or route changes through multiple groups, increasing security risk, human error, and operational bottlenecks. It simply cannot keep pace with modern operational and security requirements.
Threat actors routinely abuse GPOs to move laterally, escalate privileges, weaken security controls, or deploy ransomware and malware at scale. Native tools alone do not provide the governed change control, auditability, and rollback required to defend against these tactics.
Quest GPOADmin is an AGPM replacement that strengthens Group Policy governance, reduces risk, and delivers the visibility, control, and rollback capabilities needed to protect critical policy changes across on-premises and hybrid Active Directory environments.
Choose the right governance path
GPOADmin Express
A fast-track AGPM replacement with essential versioning, approval workflows, and rollback for immediate continuity. Ideal for organizations needing a rapid transition without changing their operational model.
GPOADmin
Enterprise-grade Group Policy governance for hybrid environments. GPOADmin combines advanced delegation, approval workflows, rollback, protected settings, attestation, drift detection, and Intune readiness so security teams can tightly control, audit, and recover critical policy changes. Ideal for organizations that need stronger control, compliance reporting, and long-term modernization.
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Replace AGPM without disrupting how your team works
GPOADmin Express provides the core capabilities AGPM customers depend on today, including versioning, check-in and check-out, approval workflows, change comparison, and rollback. It is the fastest path to a secure, supported replacement for organizations that need continuity now and want to preserve their existing operating model.
Strengthen governance and defend against GPO abuse
Full GPOADmin extends beyond basic change control with advanced delegation, protected policy lockdown, real-time change alerts, and one-click rollback. These capabilities help security and infrastructure teams defend Tier 0 assets against ransomware-driven GPO misuse and accidental misconfiguration, while eliminating the need for a small set of highly privileged administrators to manage all GPOs.
Prepare for hybrid Active Directory and Intune modernization
Quest helps organizations move beyond Advanced Group Policy Management end of life with visibility into GPO sprawl, reporting that supports cleanup and migration planning, and governance that extends into modern policy management. Understand which GPOs you actually need, reduce complexity, and prepare confidently for a hybrid and Intune-driven future.
FAQ
GPOADmin Express is the fast-lane replacement for Microsoft Advanced Group Policy Management end of life. It includes the core capabilities you rely on today: versioning, check-in/check-out, multi-level approval workflows, rollback, and Intune readiness assessment in a fully supported, actively maintained product.
GPOADmin includes everything in Express, plus: the Watcher Service for real-time unauthorized change detection and auto-rollback, GPO Protection Policies that lock Tier 0 settings even against Domain Admins, advanced attestation and 20+ compliance reports, Change Auditor integration, GPO consolidation, and full Intune policy management from a single console
It's not too late, but the risk window is already open. As of April 2026, AGPM no longer receives security patches, bug fixes, or Microsoft support. Any new vulnerabilities will remain permanently unpatched.
The good news: migrating to GPOADmin Express is designed to be fast and low-friction. It mirrors the AGPM workflow, so your team doesn't need retraining, and most organizations can be fully transitioned in days, not weeks. GPOADmin migration is equally straightforward and gives you a hardened, enterprise-ready foundation from day one.
Yes. GPOADmin Express includes a built-in Intune Readiness Assessment that scores each of your existing GPOs for Intune policy compatibility, so you can plan your hybrid migration with confidence.
Full GPOADmin extends governance and versioning directly to Intune configuration and compliance policies, letting your team manage both GPOs and Intune policies from a single console, with the same approval workflows, rollback, and delegation you use for on-premises GPOs today.
GPMC is a built-in Windows tool, but it lacks the governance controls that an AGPM replacement like GPOADmin provides. Specifically, GPMC has no version history or rollback, no approval workflows, no real-time unauthorized change monitoring, no protected settings enforcement, and no audit trail for compliance.
Without governed change control, a single accidental or malicious GPO edit can affect thousands of systems in minutes – exactly the attack pattern used by ransomware gangs.
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Seamless replacement for Microsoft AGPM
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Simplify Group Policy management and governance
AGPM End of Life is Here: Act Now to Protect Your Group Policy Environment
This on demand webinar is a strategic transition briefing designed to help you understand the impact of AGPM’s retirement and the business drivers behind moving away from legacy policy governance models.