Co-authors: 3. Updated: July 3, Categories: Windows 7. Thanks to all authors for creating a page that has been read 32, times. Is this article up to date? Yes No. Cookies make wikiHow better. By continuing to use our site, you agree to our cookie policy. About This Article. Featured Articles How to. Trending Articles How to. New Pages How to. You should never give regular users administrative rights. As described above, the background security refresh updates all security-related policy settings every 16 hours.
You can choose to mandate the reapplication of the following areas of Group Policy during each initial policy processing and background refresh:.
To recap, when you change a GPO in Active Directory , it will be automatically applied at the next refresh interval; you can also force a refresh to apply it immediately to your client systems. As an extra safety measure, you can set up mandatory reapplication to ensure that certain Group Policy settings are always reapplied, even if they have not changed.
This enables you to revert any unwanted changes made by local administrators. Go Up. Netwrix Blog. Originally published February, and updated May, Forcing a Group Policy Update Imagine that you get a phone call from the security specialist who handles your firewalls and proxy servers.
Handpicked related content:. Jeff Melnick. He is a long-time Netwrix blogger, speaker, and presenter. This is called the background security refresh and is valid for every version of Windows Server. Every 16 hours, each Group Policy client asks Active Directory about all the GPOs that contain security settings not just the ones that have changed and reapplies those security settings.
To avoid this issue, you should give local administrator accounts only to some privileged users that cannot work with local administrator rights or give local admin rights only to those applications that privileged users need to run.
You should never give regular users administrative rights. Mandatory Reapplication of Non-security Group Policy Settings As described above, the background security refresh updates all security-related policy settings every 16 hours.
You can choose to mandate the reapplication of the following areas of Group Policy during each initial policy processing and background refresh:. I was looking for something like this a few days ago. I'm going to bookmark it so I have it for reference. To continue this discussion, please ask a new question. Enter each cmdlet on a single line, even though they may appear word-wrapped across several lines here because of formatting constraints.
You can schedule gpupdate. Group Policy will also be refreshed for all computers that are located in the OUs contained in the selected OU. Click Yes in the Force Group Policy update dialog box. This is the equivalent to running GPUpdate. This display does not show the success or failure of the actual Group Policy refresh for each computer.
You should plan a delay of up to 10 minutes to start a Group Policy refresh when you are verifying the results for each computer. This allows more freedom to determine which set of computers is to be refreshed than if you schedule the refresh through the GPMC.
Additionally, you have the freedom to configure the interval of time to wait before a Group Policy refresh is performed by using the —RandomDelayInMinutes parameter. If set to a zero 0 value, the scheduled task for the Group Policy refresh is configured to start immediately.
For more information, see Invoke-GPUpdate.
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