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Command-line Remote GPO Refresh

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This is a command line utility to remotely refresh Group Policy on Win2K, XP or Server 2003.

Rating:	Currently 4/5 Stars. 1 2 3 4 5
Comments:	14
Owner:	Matty Holland
Created:	6/9/2008
Modified:	9/4/2008
Visited:	10015

NEW!!!! PowerShell version of this utility available at SDM Software Freeware Page

The utility auto-detects the target OS version and applies the appropriate options. NOTE: You need the .Net Framework 1.1 installed on the machine where you run this utility from. The following screen shot gives you an idea of the command-line options available, which mirror what are available in the native tools that come with Win2K, XP and 2003. Please let me know if you find any bugs. I tested on all 3 OS' but your mileage may vary.

Also, there's a good article on refreshing Group Policy remotely, along with a tool that lets you use rgprefresh against multiple computers, written by Jakob Heidelberg, here

Release History

Version 1.6 (current): Adds a new /n parameter that lets you specify that you don't want to trigger a reboot or logoff (added in 1.5) when using the /force /sync or /boot parameters and gpupdate would normally require a reboot or logoff to force a synchronous processing event. Also adds some additional debugging information in the event that the refresh fails.

Download: rgprefresh16.zip -- 4.8KB

Version 1.5: In this version, the tool will automatically logoff or reboot a target XP or Server 2003 system if required by Group Policy. This is different than 1.0, which did not perform this reboot or logoff task as it should have. This version also fixes some other bugs, including a "parameter is incorrect" error when connecting to a remote system without specifying credentials.

Download: rgprefresh15.zip -- 4.7KB

Version 1.0 (original): This is the first version of the tool and provided for remote refresh of Group Policy on XP, Server 2003 and Windows 2000 systems.

Download: rgprefresh.zip -- 4.4KB

Screen Shot of Version 1.6

Comments

Andrew Robinson says:

Hi there just wanted to let you know that the links for RGPRefresh.zip versions 1.6 and 1.0 are not working. 1.6 goes nowhere, and 1.0 links to 1.5. 1.5 works fine :) Thanks for a great tool Andrew

Clayton Silvio says:

Hi! Can you please give me a proper syntax how the command should be run? thanks

Darren Mar-Elia says:

Andrew--Sorry for that. We are cleaning up errant links on the site. In the meantime, if you click on the disk icon at the top of the page, next to the tool name, that should get you to 1.6.

Darren Mar-Elia says:

Clayton- If you type rgprefresh at the command line with no parameters, you will get the syntax!

Cheen-Gow says:

Superb job on the utility. This bad boy came in good handy today and accomplished everything I needed. Very nicely done. Keep up the good work.

Will says:

Will this work in a Windows 2000 Active Directory environment?

Darren Mar-Elia says:

Yes, this works against a Windows 2000 environment

Angus says:

any idea why i got the access denied message when running rgprefresh command? here is the error: Insufficient access to the target machine. Make sure you are authenticated to ta rget with sufficient privileges to access WMI

Martin P. says:

Hi.. I can't seem to get this working on my client workstations. I use the simple command line "rgprefresh /m:NCA7429679EVM01 /force", the tool confirms the successful delivery of the GP refresh on the remote machine, but nothing occurs on said remote machine. I noticed in the Security Event Log of the remote machine that the events tracking the rgprefresh command ALWAYS start with the following event: ===================== Event Type: Failure Audit Event Source: Security Event Category: Privilege Use Event ID: 577 Date: 2009-07-13 Time: 12:10:18 PM User: NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE Computer: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Description: Privileged Service Called: Server: Security Service: - Primary User Name: NETWORK SERVICE Primary Domain: NT AUTHORITY Primary Logon ID: (0x0,0x3E4) Client User Name: - Client Domain: - Client Logon ID: - Privileges: SeRestorePrivilege For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp. ============================= Any ideas? Thanks!

Kahuna says:

Paul P. says:

Works a treat, thank you very much for this utility

Kai says:

Works great as long as i dont use the parameter /force. whenever i try /force, gpupdate.exe on the target system wont shut down, instead it takes 50% cpu usage and stays there forever. Any ideas, because this would be a real great help for us.

Geoff says:

rgprefresh /m:computername /n /force hangs... I tried it on my own machine and it doesn't completely ignore the 'OK to logoff' and the OK to reboot' ...It hangs at that point and sits at 50% CPU usage.

Steve says:

Will this let me refresh group policy to someone who is logged into domain using VPN?

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