Applicable to:
- Windows XP
- Windows Vista
- Windows 7
- Windows Server 2003
- Windows Server 2008
To force (right here, right now) an update of Group Policy (the policy set) on a computer running Windows or Windows Server, you need to:
a) Make sure that Group Policy itself has been applied on the domain controller this computer is currently associated with (i.e., replicate the domain controllers with each other).
b) Run the following command with administrator rights on the target computer:
> gpupdate /force
The /force switch tells Windows not only to update the policy immediately, but also to reload it completely.
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