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Windows Group Policy and WSUS

02/04/08 | by Brian Fitzhugh [mail] | Categories: Technology, Windows

It has been a while since I worked with Windows GPO's and I had recently had to refresh my memory while helping a customer deploy a Windows Server Update Services (WSUS).  The commands that I always find myself needing yet always forgetting are listed below. 

Command      Switch I Always Forget

gpupdate      /force
gpresult        Pretty much does what I want w/o any switches
secedit         /REFRESHPOLICY MACHINE_POLICY /ENFORCE
secedit         /REFRESHPOLICY USER_POLICY /ENFORCE


These commands are helpful in determining which GPO's are getting applied to a particular server or workstation.  It's one thing to trust what you see modeled in the GPMC, but it's another to see the actual results be implemented on a machine.....these commands help with that.

Tags: gpo, wsus

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