Deploying Grou Polocies?

[InorganicMatter]

So I've changed some policies and created some new ones. Unfortunately, all the computer on my network seem to have "cached" the old policy or something, since they are all still using that one. How do I make them update their policies? Is it automatically, once a day or something?

Running Windows 2000, Active Directory, clients using Windows XP SP2.

 

[Fint]

gpupdate.

They will auto update after like 90 minutes, but a gpupdate forces it.

 

[MorfiusX]

"gpupdate /force" forces it. That will tell you if the machine needs rebooted as a result of the policy change as well. This only works on XP/2003.

For 2000, you will need to use "secedit /refreshpolicy machine_policy /enforce" or "secedit /refreshpolicy user_policy /enforce".

 

[InorganicMatter]

gpupdate.

They will auto update after like 90 minutes, but a gpupdate forces it.

Do I run this gpupdate on the client side or server side? There's 50 machines here and I'm not going to do that on each one.

 

[MorfiusX]

Client side. The policies will update automatically. The default interval is 90 minutes. Some may not get applied until reboot though.