I've got quite a few users (all Windows 10 Pro) that work 100% remotely out of their homes. I need to push out some GP updates, but for some of the users, when I connect with the VPN and do a gpupdate /force, I'm getting the following error message.
Computer policy could not be updates successfully. The following errors were encountered:
The processing of a Group Policy failed because of lack of network connectivity to a domain controller. This may be a transient condition. A success message would be generated once the machine gets connected to the domain controller and Group Policy has successfully processed. If you do not see a success message for several hours, then contact your administrator.
I've added the IP address of the domain controller (Server 2008 R2) the the DNS of the VPN connection. The computers that are experiencing this problem all are able to ping the domain controller and browse to it.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks very much.
I would also recommend in the VPN client's NIC configuration, under TCP/IP properties | Advanced | DNS to enter the corporate, internal, DNS suffix, such as mydomain.local, in the "use this DNS suffix for this connection box.
Finally it is best to enable in the VPN NIC configuration "use remote default gateway" to force all compunication through the tunnel.
Though gpupdate /force should work, if you set up the VPN client to connect before logon it should automatically update Group Policy. I have written blog articles discussing this option:
XP & Win7:
https://blog.lan-tech.ca/2012/04/29/connect-to-windows-vpn-at-logon/
Win 8 and 10:
https://blog.lan-tech.ca/2013/03/02/windows-8-connect-to-vpn-before-logon/
Note at the bottom of the first link Group policies to add if a slow link.