Forcing and Detecting Synchronous Group Policy Processing Using gpupdate /sync
http://sdmsoftware.com - Darren Mar-Elia, CTO and Founder of SDM Software, discusses forcing and detecting synchronous group policy processing using gpupdate /sync.
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Hi, this Darren Mar-Elia, CTO
and Founder of SDM Software.
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And I'm going to do a quick demo
of the GPUpdate Sync Command
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along with one of our freeware
utilities that you can see the
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effects of Synchronous GP Processing.
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So let me bring up the Group Policy
Health Reporter. This is
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a freeware utility that we provide
on our website, and let me
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just go ahead and bring that up here.
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And if you're interested in downloading
this utility, if you
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just go to our website on
the Freeware page,
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you'll find the Group Policy Health
Reporter Product right at the top
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and you can register to download that.
Now let's go ahead and
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look at the Health Reporter.
I've run the Health Reporter on
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this machine and one of the pieces
of information that it returns
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is for both the computer and the
user, it essentially returns
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the Foreground Refresh Mode, the
last time Policy Processing
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happened, and the next Foreground
Refresh Mode. So right now
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the previous Foreground Refresh
was set to Asynchronous, the
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reason was basically, No Need for
Synchronous. There was nothing
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that needed Synchronous Processing.
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The same holds true for the next
Foreground Processing cycle.
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However, what I'm going to do
here is I'm going to go in
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and run GPUpdate Sync. And it's asking
me if it's "Okay to Restart?"
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because it's trying to
flag enforce a reboot
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on this machine in order for the Synchronous
Processing to take effect.
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I'm going to say "No" to Restart
and "No" to Logoff.
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Of course they won't take effect
until either a User Logoff or
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a System Reboot. But what I'm going
to do is reconnect to this
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machine and what you see here now
is that the next Foreground
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Refresh Mode is set to Synchronous,
and the reason is that I
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forced it Forced to Sync Refresh.
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So essentially what happened here
is by using the GPUpdate Sync
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Command, I've forced the next Policy
Processing Cycle to be Synchronous.
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And I can see that very easily
through my GP Health Reporter.
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I can also show it on the Pre-User
side as well if I chose to do that.
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And that's the end of this
demo. Thanks for watching.