Windows Active Directory or Windows AD uses gpupdate in order to update and refresh group policies of the computers in Active Directory Domain. This tool is automatically run at some intervals. But in some cases this mechanism may not work properly and the computer can not get recent Domain Policy.
Detailed help information about the gpupdate can be printed with the /? or /h like below.
We will start with a simple example. We will just issue gpupdate and refresh Group policy of Computer and Users. As we can see following screenshot we do not provide any option or parameter.
In some cases we need to force gpupdate if it is not working properly. We will provide the /force option in this example.
1 Open an elevated command prompt. 2 Copy and paste the command you want to use below into the elevated command prompt, and press Enter. (see screenshot below) (Updates only changed computer policy settings) gpupdate /target:computer OR (Updates all computer policy settings) gpupdate /target:computer /force. Gpupdate command is used to update Group policies in Windows operating system Domain. There are different options to use with the gpupdate but one of the most used option is /force which will reapply all policy settings.
If specifically test the User Policies we may nedd to log off from current user session. We can provide this as /Logoff option like below.
Runas Gpupdate Force
If the policy update will require some restart of the Computer we can use /Boot option like below.
If we only interested with updating and refreshing User Group policies we can specify it with the /Target:User option like below.
We can also update only Computer policies with the similar option /Target by providing the Computer like below.
Server is 10.4.11, client is 10.5.5
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