How do i refresh Group Policy 1

[slice16]

I have set up Group Policy on my Domain Controller, i am wanting all of my ocmputers to read from this policy when they boot up, however all my sytems are ignoring this... i have been told i have to refresh teh group policy, how do i do this?

 

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slice16

To refresh a group policy you can use the secedit command line tool in W2k. If you have altered the Computer Configuration section of the GPO you will need to refresh the machine_policy. If you have altered the User Configuration section of the you would use the user_policy option.

secedit /refreshpolicy machine_policy /enforce

Would refresh the Computer configuration portion of the policy.

secedit /refreshpolicy user_policy /enforce

Would refresh the User configuration portion of the policy.

The policy will also refresh on it's on at an interval of every 90 minutes (with a 30 minute offset) for workstations and servers that are non domain controllers. The policy refresh interval amoung domain controllers is every 5 minutes.

When you rebooted the systems it should refreshed as well.

 

[markdmac]

On Win2K Pro:

secedit /refreshpolicy machine_policy /enforce
secedit /refreshpolicy user_policy /enforce

On XP Pro:

gpupdate /force

Some XP policies require a reboot to take affect you can force that too with:

gpupdate /force /boot


I hope you find this post helpful. Please let me know if it was.

Regards,

Mark