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How long from GPO change on DC to client

How long does it take from a change being made to a group policy on a DC to affect a client PC?

I've changed a few setting on some previous GPO that were set up but they don't seem to be filtering down to the client PC's.

I know that up can run gpupdate from a client to update but the GPO is still not working. Is there a certain length of time before the changes made to the GPO on the DC become effective?

DC is Server 2003 and clients are XP Pro

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Toni Uranjek

Hi QGolden,

Restart client computer. Some settings won't apply if computer is not restarted or user is not logged off.
Use gpresult to see if GPO applies at all.

HTH

Toni

Brian Pierce

It depends what the setting is - some cannot be applied unless a logon or startup occur

Yossarian-22

You may reload GPOs using the command
gpupdate
or
gpupdate /force

Brian Pierce

... even if you use gpupdate /force some settings may not apply until a startup/logon - as an extreme example, you cant redirect a users folder while they are in the middle of a session.

QGolden

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Thanks guys. Well the good news is the GPO are changing on other PC's the bad news is its only mine there not changing on.

In RSoP I get the following error

Group Policy Infrastructure failed due to the error listed below.
Overlapped I/O operation is in progress.

Note: Due to the GP Core failure, none of the other Group Policy components processed their policy. Consequently, status information for the other components is not available.

Any ideas? I see this message has been posted before so I'll do a search and get reading unless someone can point me in the right direction

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QGolden

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snap! that's the KB I founded and it sorted the problem.

Thanks for all the help guys.