Stuck at "Group Policy Management is loading...."

[Ertech]

Hi everyone,

 

I have two Domain Controller 2012r2 (Hyper-V VMs) and one of the Group policy Management Console is causing me a problem...

 

"When we open GPMC on the 2012 DC it shows the MC as it should be but there is a second window opened which is showing "Group policy Management is loading ...." and there is a progress bar in it. This second windows stays open forever

It can be closed. GPMC is working fine with the 2nd window minimized or closed.

Although it is not causing any problems it is annoying and it should not be doing that." exactly the same issue that I am having - https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/Windows/en-US/628da5cd-402c-4f66-a13c-173e4370a77a/gpmc-is-stuck-at-group-policy-management-is-loading?forum=winserverGP

 

Also, if I restart the DC and launch the GPMC at first it loads without any problems but if I exit and relaunch then the progress bar appears forever and I will need to manually close it or restart the server not to get the loading bar again....

 

Any ideas what might be causing this issue????

 

Many thanks in advance

Edited April 12, 2016 by Ertech

[Ertech]

Anyone experienced a similar issue? Edited April 13, 2016 by Ertech

[ChrisMiles]

Just a random idea, but have your tried resetting the user profile for the admin account you're using, I've found this to fix alot of weird random problems before.

[Ertech]

I have but no luck.. The DC2 works fine but for some strange reason it only happens with my primary domain controller DC1...

[ChrisMiles]

Does DC1 have correct DNS settings on the network adapter?

[Ertech]

I have checked the DNS setting and that look fine as well....