What is gpupdate

By using the -force switch we can run the updates without the confirmation. With this, we can create a small script to target all computers in a specific OU and run GPupdate on them. If you have any questions, then just drop a comment below. Thankyou so much. For your help but most for your humbleness. I know I am quite silly anout this but you helped me anyway. And what about if I no longer want it on my laptop.

I was trying disinstalling a malwer What can we do to get rid of the update. And am I exposed to danger after that I have typed this command:. So far, it seems like everything works, right? In a typical scenario, running gpupdate and allowing it to walk through its process works just fine. But there are occasions where you need to force some things along. By default, gpupdate is smart; it compares all current settings with any new settings and only applies them.

Why would you need to do that? Sometimes, settings drift from their expected values. Or, perhaps, you want to add a user back to a restricted group from which it was removed. The Group Policy Client service reapplies some settings regularly, such as security settings default interval is 16 hours.

As expected, the gpupdate command can provide information about each parameter and what they do. By default, gpupdate tells the Group Policy Client service to process both computer and use settings. Sometimes a policy will have overlapping user and computer settings. When this happens, the user settings override the computer settings, which may lead to unexpected behavior.

Gpupdate typically runs pretty quick, but problems with an unresponsive DC or Group Policy client service may hang up the process. This is a performance optimization.

But gpupdate also has a number of other switches that can prove useful and those are the ones I want to cover here. To summarize, here are the options available with gpupdate, and a description of each. More specifically, there are some CSEs, like Software Installation and Folder Redirection, that only process during a foreground processing cycle i.

It lets you handle the situation where GP processing hangs for an extraordinary long period of time. The default is to wait for 10 minutes for the command to complete. If it takes longer than that, then GPupdate simply gives up and returns. If you set this value to -1, then gpupdate will continue indefinitely.

What it says is, do a normal GP processing update i. Again, this prompt only happens if there are per-computer CSEs that apply to the machine, that actually need a foreground processing cycle. All it does, if specified alone, is set some flags for both per-computer and per-user processing that forces the next foreground refresh i.

So what does this actually mean? What this meant is that, for example, as Windows was starting up, per-computer GP processing would happen but at the same time, Windows would present the user logon dialog—not waiting for GP processing to finish. The same would hold true for per-user GP processing, where asynchronous processing meant that once the user logged on, GP processing would start but the user would be presented with their desktop without waiting for GP processing to finish.

This asynchronous behavior can impact some of those same CSEs that only run during foreground processing—most notably—folder redirection. You could, of course, disable asynchronous processing altogether by enabling the Admin. Additional information See our Active Directory definition for further information and related links on this term.

Was this page useful? Specifies that only user or only computer policy settings be refreshed. By default, both user and computer policy settings are refreshed. Sets the number of seconds to wait for policy processing to finish.