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How to refresh group policy remotely

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by Steve Wiseman on March 29, 2013 · 2 comments

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Last week I got an email from Chris:

“One thing that would be really useful (In Network Administrator) for us would be the ability to run gpupdate with various switches i.e. /force or /boot to remote pc’s. especially when we have deployed software to a whole IT suite and then have to log on to each one and do a gpupdate /force /boot to pick up any setting changes.”

We added the feature this week.

You can pick just the user policy, computer policy (or both).

If you want to force the policy, or reboot – those options are there too:

Group Policy Settings

To refresh a policy remotely, just pick the Group policy refresh plugin:

Group Policy Plugin

Set your options, and then pick your list of computers:

Group Policy Computer Selection

Hit the start button, and Network Administrator will take care of the rest:

Get your free copy from here:

Network Administrator Download

To get Network Administrator to work remotely, make sure file and printer sharing is open in the firewall…these articles will get you started:

Windows XP:

http://www.intelliadmin.com/index.php/2008/12/enabling-file-and-printer-sharing-in-windows-xp/

Windows Vista, 2008:

http://www.intelliadmin.com/index.php/2008/12/enabling-file-and-printer-sharing-in-vista/

Windows 7, 2008 R2:

http://www.intelliadmin.com/index.php/2009/08/windows-7-the-admin-share/

Windows 8, 2012:

http://www.intelliadmin.com/index.php/2012/10/windows-8-enable-the-admin-share/

From a script:

http://www.intelliadmin.com/index.php/2013/01/enable-file-and-printer-sharing-from-a-script/

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1 Mike March 29, 2013 at 1:16 pm

Awesome stuff. How do I update my current copy?

2 Steve Wiseman March 29, 2013 at 1:17 pm

Hi Mike,

Just install right over the old one. It will automatically install the new plugins without losing your current settings.

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