Force group update command

Now, if you have a bunch of computers that need updated it would be a pain to log into each one and run this command. With Windows Server and later versions, you can now force a group policy update on remote computers from the Group Policy Management Console.

This will run a group policy update on all computers. Now this is pretty cool, I get a window showing me the status of group policy being updated on each computer. In Windows you can now force an immediate update using the powershell invoke-GPUupdate cmdlet.

The RandomDelayInMinutes 0 specifies the delay. Setting it to 0 will update group policy right away. The only downside to using this command is that the clients will get a CMD screen pop up like below. If you want to use the PowerShell command to force an update on all computers you can use these commands:. The above commands will pull in every computer from the domain, put them into a variable and run the commands for each object in the variable.

It will quickly spot domain controller issues, prevent replication failures, track failed logon attempts and much more. You can either force update a GPO to a specific object such as a computer, or you can force GPO update on all computers. Do note that the computer that is being updated will show a pop-up dialogue box prompting that its Group Policy is being updated. Finally, forcing Group Policy updates can also be done using the Command Prompt tool. However, it must be done with command prompt that has administrative permissions.

To run an elevated command prompt:. This will ensure that the command prompt runs with elevated permissions. To force a Group Policy update using this elevated Command Prompt, the command line utility gpupdate is used. The syntax used is as follows:. Active Directory Group Policy in a Nutshell.

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Please rate your experience Yes No. Any additional feedback? Submit and view feedback for This product This page. View all page feedback. In this article. Specifies that only User or only Computer policy settings are updated. By default, both User and Computer policy settings are updated. Sets the number of seconds to wait for policy processing to finish before returning to the command prompt.

When the time limit is exceeded, the command prompt appears, but policy processing continues.