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Rambler
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Czech Republic
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Posted - 09/26/2011 : 05:49:25 AM

Hi, does anyone know if it's possible to determine when the last automatic refresh of GPO occurred on a computer? Or when the next one will occur?

Thanks

wobble_wobble
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Ireland
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Posted - 09/26/2011 : 08:01:13 AM

gpresult /z gives an output with the refresh time as well as the GPO's that are applied

Lot of other options on it as well.

Joe

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wkasdo
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Netherlands
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Posted - 09/26/2011 : 10:05:30 AM

Check the eventlog (Group Policy) if you are on Windows 2008 or higher. It's all there, including the _next_ refresh.

Make it as simple as you can, but not simpler -- Albert Einstein

JSCLMEDAVE
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USA
6135 Posts
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Posted - 09/26/2011 : 10:24:42 AM

This may help

Troubleshooting Group Policy Using Event Logs
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc749336(WS.10).aspx

Event ID Start event type

4000 Computer startup

4001 User logon

4002 Computer network change

4003 User network change

4004 Computer manual refresh

4005 User manual refresh

4006 Computer periodic refresh

4007 User periodic refresh

Event ID 1030 � Group Policy Preprocessing (Active Directory)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc727265(WS.10).aspx

And -

"The Group Policy is automatically updated (refreshed) in the background every 90 minutes, with a random offset of 0 to 30 minutes. You need to wait for 120 minutes to check if the GPP you customized work normally or not.

If you would like to modify the refresh interval and the offset interval for users, please modify and apply the group policy: User Configuration\Administrative Templates\System\Group Policy."

For more information, please refer to the following links:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc757597(WS.10).aspx

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/283312

And -

Troubleshoot Group Policy configurations using gpresult
http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/datacenter/troubleshoot-group-policy-configurations-using-gpresult/2927

Darren and Jeremy have several links on this as well on their sites.

http://www.sdmsoftware.com/blog/

http://gpanswers.com/blog.html

Tim-

�This too shall pass"

Rambler
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Czech Republic
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Posted - 09/26/2011 : 10:30:27 AM

Thanks guys, seems I wasn't searching hard enough on my own :)

Edited by - Rambler on 09/26/2011 10:31:12 AM

wkasdo
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Netherlands
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Posted - 09/26/2011 : 10:52:17 AM

I suspected as much. This was a pretty trivial question for your standards