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I just wanted some clarification gpupdate sync requires you to run in admin mode, you cannot run it within the normal CMD even if you are on an admin account.<br />
My question is when you run that command does it go and retrieve the group policy objects for that user or for the admin account since its not ran in the User context, you must run it inside an elevated prompt?
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I just wanted some clarification gpupdate sync requires you to run in admin mode, you cannot run it within the normal CMD even if you are on an admin account.
My question is when you run that command does it go and retrieve the group policy objects for that user or for the admin account since its not ran in the User context, you must run it inside an elevated prompt?

GPupdate /sync

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