Group policies not updating

[cooper]

Hi Guys

 

I have just put a new workstation on the network and connected to the domain.

 

Put it in the correct OU and forced a gpupdate

 

Rebooted, rebooted again, gpupdate again ect ect..........

 

But its not picking up any of the msi's to install. Its finding the logon script as all mapped drives and printers and there.

 

Any idea what could be stopping this.

 

Thanks

 

Cooper

[cooper]

No errors that i can see, I have put this into a OU that will update all other computers

[westleya]

Check the time on the PC..?

[jamesb]

GPResult to find out if its actually getting the full set of policies which should be applied?

[sted]

try importing the following reg file on one of them makes the pc wait a bit longer before abandoning looking for policies (assuming xp pcs not tried on vista/2k)

 

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

 

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon]

"GpNetworkStartTimeoutPolicyValue"=dword:0000003c

[Innovation_Dan]

Well, the first place to look is your event viewer logs on the computer you're working with, as well as running GPresult from a command line. I would imagine the GPresult will show that the GPO policy is applied.

 

In my experience, when an app fails to apply via GP, it's either a permissions issue on the source location, the source for the package was set to local drives instead of UNC (i.e. d:\shared\apps instead of \\server\shared\apps), or a problem with the Windows Installer service.

 

The Eventviewer should tell you something useful though. Check in Applications.

 

GL!