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By the way if you want to apply it to a series of computers you can use a text file list of computers and include that in the command rather than one specific PC. See the syntax in the link above.<br />
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Also because gpupdate often returns a response asking if you want to log off now, to deal with that you may want to use the &nbsp;/logoff or /boot switches with the gpupdate command.<br />
<a href="http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver/en/library/6880fef3-76b7-4eb3-b993-fa00799615851033.mspx?mfr=true" rel="ugc nofollow">http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver/en/library/6880fef3-76b7-4eb3-b993-fa00799615851033.mspx?mfr=true</a>
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By the way if you want to apply it to a series of computers you can use a text file list of computers and include that in the command rather than one specific PC. See the syntax in the link above.

Also because gpupdate often returns a response asking if you want to log off now, to deal with that you may want to use the  /logoff or /boot switches with the gpupdate command.
http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver/en/library/6880fef3-76b7-4eb3-b993-fa00799615851033.mspx?mfr=true [http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver/en/library/6880fef3-76b7-4eb3-b993-fa00799615851033.mspx?mfr=true]

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If your PC has the 2k3 AdminPak, I would *highly* recommend SpecOps GPUpdate add-in for the AD snap-in.<br />
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<a href="http://www.specopssoft.com/products/specopsgpupdate/" rel="ugc">http://www.specopssoft.com/products/specopsgpupdate/</a><br />
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It integrates into the snap-in and will let you run multiple commands to any computer on the domain (including gpupdate, reboot, etc).
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If your PC has the 2k3 AdminPak, I would *highly* recommend SpecOps GPUpdate add-in for the AD snap-in.

http://www.specopssoft.com/products/specopsgpupdate/ [http://www.specopssoft.com/products/specopsgpupdate/]

It integrates into the snap-in and will let you run multiple commands to any computer on the domain (including gpupdate, reboot, etc).

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Thanks azstbzimms.<br />
Cheers !<br />
--Rob
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Looking for a VBscript that will refresh group policy on a remote computer. &nbsp;(the equivalent of running gpupdate /force from the command line of a local machine). &nbsp;I'd like to launch the script from my WinXP machine, have it ask me for a computer name, and then refresh the group policy on the target machine. &nbsp;This is in a W2K3 environment.<br />
Thanks!
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Looking for a VBscript that will refresh group policy on a remote computer.  (the equivalent of running gpupdate /force from the command line of a local machine).  I'd like to launch the script from my WinXP machine, have it ask me for a computer name, and then refresh the group policy on the target machine.  This is in a W2K3 environment.
Thanks!

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