How to force a group policy update on the domain

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We care about security of your data. Sometimes you may need to update quickly the group policies on multiple computers because you changed the internet proxy settings or maybe to replace a printer for example. There are couple of ways to run GPUpdate on a remote computer. This will update the user and computer policies on all the computers in the given organization unit. The nice thing is that it will as for confirmation and show you how many computers are going to be updated.

After you have confirmed the update the policies will be updated and you can see the status of each computer.

In this example 5 computers where turned off, so the update failed. We can also use PowerShell to run gpupdate on remote computers. The only requirement is that you have Windows or later. Running it from Windows 10 is also possible, but then you need to open the PowerShell windows with a domain admin account. One thing to keep in mind is that at any given time in my domain, there are computers that are offline.

These return as errors. Windows PowerShell keeps on creating new sessions in spite of the errors appearing in the console. The command and associated errors are shown in the image that follows. The presence of lots of errors may be disturbing. ICM is an alias for the Invoke-Command cmdlet. The command is shown here. When Group Policy settings successfully apply to a workstation, an event is displayed in the System event log on the computer.

I can easily use Invoke-Command to retrieve this information. At times, I have to call the Help desk at work, and the answer is to refresh Group Policy on my local computer. The thing is that they often want me to update Group Policy five times, and then wait five minutes between refreshes.