Power Manager - no new profiles, group policy not applying

Hi there!
Having an issue with power manager (latest version, downloaded today) on Vista on a T61. The first problem is that I cannot create a power profile. If I hit New on the advanced page and fill all the stuff out, the named power plan does not show up. It's like I never did it.
The second issue is that group policy doesn't seem to apply, either. I tried to create a new power policy through AD using the GPO available for download. All the settings are filled out, it's named, and it doesn't show up.
For those concerned that the group policy is mucking up the ability to create a new one through the UI, that was the behavior before the group policy was set up.
rsop.msc shows definitively that the policy is applying to this machine.
Does anyone have any hints?
Thank you!

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Hi,
Thanks for posting in the forum.
Before going further, would you please let me know how did you configure the Group Policy setting to deploy the wallpaper? Have you configured some settings to limit the scope the GPO applying?
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GPMC.log
==================
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Hi there
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Many thanks
Sharon

Sounds like you have a content replication issue more than a GPO issue.
Especially if the GPO works for locations that point to the Primaries
for Content.
Do you have throttling configured anywhere in any fashion?
You may need to increase the Replication Timeout to make sure content is
getting over to the Sats. Often increasing from 60 to 240 helps, but
watch out for throttling preventing content replication.
It is possible things are backing up.
On 7/31/2014 8:26 AM, shazzypoos wrote:
>
> I should add that when you looked at the "Click for Details" to the
> right of the Effective "Failed" status the message is "Policy
> Enforcement Failed : The action (0) threw an exception. Message (1).
> Exception (2) (grouppolicy, "None of the source locations could be
> found"
>
> Hmmmm! Currently in closest server rules there is only the server for
> the site it's on set - we do not want it to come back to the Primary for
> policies. As I say, this was working before the weekend upgrade. Thanks!
>
>
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11.2.3 security policy not applying

This was in another post felt it need its on post and subject.
11.2.3 has help, but now on device that have 11.2.3 the security policy is
not applying. I have 4 device I'm testing on one was a clean instill of
11.2.3 the other 3 were upgraded, out of all 4 only one the security policy
is applying right. Where would the security policy be store when it is
applied to a device. Is their a better way to apply security policy.
I found that the gpttmpl.inf file is not being copy to the
[C:\Windows\System32\GroupPolicy\Machine\Microsoft\ Windows NT\SecEdit]
folder and did confirm that it is in the zcm meachine cache folder
[C:\Program Files
(x86)\Novell\ZENworks\bin\handlers\CacheFiles\Work stationCache\GroupPolicy\M
achine\Microsoft\Windows NT\SecEdit]. I manual copy it to the SecEdit
folder
logged off back on and then did get the Security Options Settings set
properly.
So why is it not copying it over, the Registry.pol file is and all other
group policy are working (so far). And on the one computer that Security
Options is working right on and running 11.2.3 the gpttmpl.inf is not in
the
[C:\Windows\System32\GroupPolicy\Machine\Microsoft\ Windows NT\SecEdit]
folder ether and I have checked computers that are still on 11.2.0 and the
Security Settings are applied but the gpttmpl.inf file in not in the
[C:\Windows\System32\GroupPolicy\Machine\Microsoft\ Windows NT\SecEdit]. Is
ZEN suppose to copy gpttmpl.inf to the system32 group policy folder and if
so can this be fix? I really need Security Settings to apply.
Hope this makes sense.
And I have this problem on both 32 & 64 bit windows 7
I don't know if this affects Windows XP because I don't have any Security
Settings for XP set.
Thanks
Scott

Well I found this in the ZCM troubleshooting guide with the help of google
[When more than one Windows Group policy is applied to a device, the
security settings of the last applied policy are effective on the device.].
I have all ways had device first user last sense 10.3.3 - 11.2.0 and the
security policy did apply, at lease with WIN7. So on my test machines I
change it to user fist device last and now the security policy now works
with 11.2.3, but I still have to have a bundle to run gpupdate /force at
user login. If I done have the bundle to run the device group policy does
not apply sometime, I don't mine to have the bundle to run just why with
win7 is does not apply with out it and XP does with out it.
Also why does it not copy the gpttmpl.inf to
[C:\Windows\System32\GroupPolicy\Machine\Microsoft\ Windows NT\SecEdit]
directory?
>>> On Friday, March 15, 2013 at 12:34 PM, in message
<[email protected]>, Scott Malugin<[email protected]> wrote:
> This was in another post felt it need its on post and subject.
>
>
> 11.2.3 has help, but now on device that have 11.2.3 the security policy
> is
> not applying. I have 4 device I'm testing on one was a clean instill of
> 11.2.3 the other 3 were upgraded, out of all 4 only one the security
> policy
> is applying right. Where would the security policy be store when it is
> applied to a device. Is their a better way to apply security policy.
>
>
> I found that the gpttmpl.inf file is not being copy to the
> [C:\Windows\System32\GroupPolicy\Machine\Microsoft\ Windows NT\SecEdit]
> folder and did confirm that it is in the zcm meachine cache folder
> [C:\Program Files
> (x86)\Novell\ZENworks\bin\handlers\CacheFiles\Work stationCache\GroupPoli
> cy\M
>
> achine\Microsoft\Windows NT\SecEdit]. I manual copy it to the SecEdit
> folder
> logged off back on and then did get the Security Options Settings set
> properly.
>
> So why is it not copying it over, the Registry.pol file is and all other
> group policy are working (so far). And on the one computer that Security
> Options is working right on and running 11.2.3 the gpttmpl.inf is not in
> the
> [C:\Windows\System32\GroupPolicy\Machine\Microsoft\ Windows NT\SecEdit]
> folder ether and I have checked computers that are still on 11.2.0 and
> the
> Security Settings are applied but the gpttmpl.inf file in not in the
> [C:\Windows\System32\GroupPolicy\Machine\Microsoft\ Windows NT\SecEdit].
> Is
> ZEN suppose to copy gpttmpl.inf to the system32 group policy folder and
> if
> so can this be fix? I really need Security Settings to apply.
>
> Hope this makes sense.
>
> And I have this problem on both 32 & 64 bit windows 7
> I don't know if this affects Windows XP because I don't have any
> Security
> Settings for XP set.
>
>
> Thanks
> Scott

New Group Policy not working on 2008 RDS in 2012 Domain - Security Filtering problem?

We have a Windows 2008 R2 RDS in a Windows 2012R2 Domain. We want to lockdown the 2008 RDS for Domain users that we have added to a new security Group--named "Data Collection Users". These users are "Domain Users" and login to the
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Group Policy not getting read on new laptops

I have a batch of new Dell Latitude E5500 laptops.. Using Zen 7 on
netware 6.5.. downloaded the latest agent as a troubleshooting plan.
The agent read enough of the assigned policy to create a DLU but does
not read enough of it to apply the group policy and does not read the
profile or re-save the profile to the users home folder.. the same
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district.. any ideas ??
Thanks in advance
Doug

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Win 2K8 R2 - Group Policy Management - Failed to Open Group Policy Object. You may not have appropriate rights. The network path was not found.

New to Windows Server 2008 R2 Administration.
I setup this Windows 2008 R2 Server on a Dell 2950 Poweredge server and have been migrating users off of an old NT style domain running on Samba 3.6 on CentOS.
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When attempting to setup Group Policy Objects, I continually get the "Failed to Open Group Policy Object" Error. This is driving me nuts and seems to be a 49 error.. which I have done a ton of research on but none of the suggested fixes seem
to be working.
I've been working at this for a couple of weeks and really need this fixed to be able to set GPO's correctly.
Here is my IPCONFIG /ALL
C:\Users\Administrator.NICHOLAS.000>ipconfig /all
Windows IP Configuration
Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : NICHOLAS
Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . : sacredheartsaratoga.org
Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Hybrid
IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
DNS Suffix Search List. . . . . . : nicholas.sacredheartsaratoga.org
Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection 2:
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Broadcom BCM5708C NetXtreme II GigE (NDIS
VBD Client) #2
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-1D-09-27-F1-63
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::542:43f2:2aaf:d903%13(Preferred)
IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 10.10.20.21(Preferred)
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 10.10.20.3
DHCPv6 IAID . . . . . . . . . . . : 301997321
DHCPv6 Client DUID. . . . . . . . : 00-01-00-01-19-7D-DC-B6-00-1D-09-27-F1-61
DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 10.10.20.21
NetBIOS over Tcpip. . . . . . . . : Enabled
Tunnel adapter isatap.{41653A38-9372-4740-BB03-41950A9C9BC0}:
Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Microsoft ISATAP Adapter
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-E0
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
Tunnel adapter Local Area Connection* 9:
Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
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Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-E0
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes

Will post the entire contents of my gpreport as soon as my account is verified... but this is the jist of the error being reported:
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class="vmlimage" from="25,25" strokecolor="white" strokeweight="3px" style="" to="75,75"></v:line><v:line class="vmlimage" from="75,25" strokecolor="white" strokeweight="3px" style="" to="25,75"></v:line></v:group>
Component Name
Status
Last Process Time
Group Policy Infrastructure
Failed
2/17/2014 2:50:06 PM
Group Policy Infrastructure failed due to the error listed below.
Logon failure: unknown user name or bad password.
Note: Due to the GP Core failure, none of the other Group Policy components processed their policy. Consequently, status information for the other components is not available.
Additional information may have been logged. Review the Policy Events tab in the console or the application event log for events between 2/17/2014 2:50:05 PM and 2/17/2014 2:50:06 PM.
Registry
(N/A)
1/4/2014 1:45:29 PM
Security
(N/A)
1/4/2014 1:45:35 PM
User Configuration Summary

Group Policy not coming down on some machines

Environment:
Client 4.83SP1
Windows 2k SP4
Netware 5.1
eDir 8.7.3
Zen 3.2
Symptom:
After several agonizing days of going through the TIDs and turning on
debugging and checking all file dates on the workstation in question, a
working laptop and the public folders on the servers I've come up with the
following but I don't know the cause:
The workstation in question (and there are sporadic workstations with the
same problem) finds and uses the Container Policy (ZEN3 version) then reads
the User Package but will not execute the binding orders of the Group
Policy. As a matter of fact, I turned on Group Policy logging (TID
10058023) and a file is never created. Also, the Group Policies subkey in
the "HKLM/Software/Novell/Workstation Manager". I turned on ZenPOL32
logging and compared my laptop which is working to the workstation in
question. First, they are not applying the policies in the same order (DLU
is always first, but after that, the order is hap-hazard). But, I also see
some sections that make me wonder why the workstation is giving up. These
files are huges so I'd rather not post in this, but I'll put the pieces that
are raising my eyebrows:
Workstation in Question has the following piece about the Group Policy
Package:
ENTER ZENGetPolicyPackageDN -- tree = EPSD_TREE
ZENGetPolicyPackageDN -- policyDN = CN=Student User
Package:WinNT-2000-XP:Windows Group
Policy.OU=ZFD3.OU=Policies.OU=LMMS.OU=Middle.O=EPS D
Entering DSGetUserContext.
os version = 4
Preferred Tree = EPSD_TREE_______________________
Set Context to Tree = EPSD_TREE
CreateContext = 2
NWDSWhoAmI-2 returned (0) "CN=100341.OU=Students.OU=LMMS.OU=Middle.O=EPS D".
Verify TYPED (0) "CN=100341.OU=Students.OU=LMMS.OU=Middle.O=EPS D".
Preferred Tree = EPSD_TREE_______________________
Set Context to Tree = EPSD_TREE
CreateContext = 2
DSGetObjectAttrVal -- objectName -- CN=Student User
Package:WinNT-2000-XP:Windows Group
Policy.OU=ZFD3.OU=Policies.OU=LMMS.OU=Middle.O=EPS D
DSGetObjectAttrVal -- attrName -- zenpolAssociation
EXIT DSGetObjectAttrVal -- ccode -- 0
ZENGetPolicyPackageDN -- packageDN -- CN=Student User
Package.OU=ZFD3.OU=Policies.OU=LMMS.OU=Middle.O=EP SD
EXIT ZENGetPolicyPackageDN
The Laptop, in comparison for the same Group Policy Package has the
following:
PACKAGE FOUND = CN=Student User
Package.OU=ZFD3.OU=Policies.OU=LMMS.OU=Middle.O=EP SD
FindPolicy - objectName = CN=Student User
Package.OU=ZFD3.OU=Policies.OU=LMMS.OU=Middle.O=EP SD
FindPolicy - attrName = zenpolPolicy attrType = zenwmGroupPolicy
ZENGetObjectAttributes - attrName = zenpolPolicy objName = CN=Student User
Package.OU=ZFD3.OU=Policies.OU=LMMS.OU=Middle.O=EP SD
Enabled Policy = CN=Student User Package:WinNT-2000-XP:Windows Group
Policy.OU=ZFD3.OU=Policies.OU=LMMS.OU=Middle.O=EPS D
AddStringtoList -- Adding -- CN=Student User Package:WinNT-2000-XP:Windows
Group Policy.OU=ZFD3.OU=Policies.OU=LMMS.OU=Middle.O=EPS D
Enabled Policy(platformSpecific[4]) = CN=Student User
Package:WinNT-2000-XP:Windows Group
Policy.OU=ZFD3.OU=Policies.OU=LMMS.OU=Middle.O=EPS D
IsStringInList -- zenwmGroupPolicy -- is already in the list.
It appears that the workstation in question is having trouble resolving the
Effective policies. The laptop, on the other hand, has no such entries
anywhere in the log about effective policies.
If anyone has ideas I would love it. Uninstalling the 4.83sp1 client and
reisntalling did not help. I've DSREPAIR'd the tree several times with
Rebuild Operational Schema. WHen I uninstalled 4.83sp1 I checked the
registry and the Novell subkey was cleared out.
I'm burnt out on this one. If you want both log files, please post your
email address without the @ symbol and I'll fire them off to you.
Thanks in advance.
Bill Prehl
Network Manager
East Penn School District
prehlb at eastpennsd dot org

Here's the skinny on our situation.
1) We do not let the users update MS patches in our district. We do them
manually (still).
2) We are running the 4.83sp1 client on Win2k (have not got around to
upgrading to 4.90sp2). Our A/V had broke on 4.90 and we had to back it down
last year. So, XP machines are at 4.90sp2.
Win2k machine last had MS patches applied on 7/11/05 - this is a critical
point.
First, I discovered that the Policy Object in the tree was "corrupt" for
some of the 4.83sp1 clients. I'm betting all of them. Because the
zenpol32.dll was "seeing" the group policy objects but it was looking for a
zenpackage = effective in the log file. It was never initiating the
wmgrppol.dll to bring down and implement the group policies. Recreated the
policy object in the tree (not the Group Policies - reused the same folder)
and now the zenpol32.dll was operating properly but, still not getting the
NAL as the desktop. But, now the windows desktop was locking down but late,
very late. I would get the desktop and click on START and see the entire
start menu. Wait 10 seconds and secedit kicked in and now I had a
locked-down START menu.
Second, secedit appeared to be very delayed or wmgrppol.dll was having
trouble. I noticed this machine required 7 critical patches (one is the
genuine tool so really six patches). The last time patches were applied was
on 7/11/05. I noticed also that when I wanted to turn on secedit logging
(gpextensions registry keys) that even after a reboot there was no log file.
Apply the critical patches and now the NAL immediately works as the desktop
shell.
I worked on this problem for and entire work week plus some after hours
work.
Side note: Our XP machines with the 4.90sp2 client did not have a problem
seeing the Group Policy package in the tree. Only the 4.83sp1 client. So,
recreating the policy in the tree only helped the 4.83sp1 clients. Also, I
don't believe MS broke secedit in XP because they changed it to gpupdate.exe
so I'm betting it's a different configuration and the patches that broke
Win2k did not get applied to XP.
There is nothing on MS site that I could find about this nor does Novell
seem aware (or even care since it's 4.83sp1 and Zen3.2sp1). Maybe this post
will save somebody a lot of headache. If they keep MS patches up to date
they probably will never notice this problem unless they hit it over the
summer after MS released the secedit patch that broke it.
Cheers.
Bill Prehl
"Bill Prehl" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Environment:
> Client 4.83SP1
> Windows 2k SP4
> Netware 5.1
> eDir 8.7.3
> Zen 3.2
>
> Symptom:
> After several agonizing days of going through the TIDs and turning on
> debugging and checking all file dates on the workstation in question, a
> working laptop and the public folders on the servers I've come up with the
> following but I don't know the cause:
>
> The workstation in question (and there are sporadic workstations with the
> same problem) finds and uses the Container Policy (ZEN3 version) then
reads
> the User Package but will not execute the binding orders of the Group
> Policy. As a matter of fact, I turned on Group Policy logging (TID
> 10058023) and a file is never created. Also, the Group Policies subkey in
> the "HKLM/Software/Novell/Workstation Manager". I turned on ZenPOL32
> logging and compared my laptop which is working to the workstation in
> question. First, they are not applying the policies in the same order
(DLU
> is always first, but after that, the order is hap-hazard). But, I also
see
> some sections that make me wonder why the workstation is giving up. These
> files are huges so I'd rather not post in this, but I'll put the pieces
that
> are raising my eyebrows:
>
> Workstation in Question has the following piece about the Group Policy
> Package:
>
> *********
> ENTER ZENGetPolicyPackageDN -- tree = EPSD_TREE
> ZENGetPolicyPackageDN -- policyDN = CN=Student User
> Package:WinNT-2000-XP:Windows Group
> Policy.OU=ZFD3.OU=Policies.OU=LMMS.OU=Middle.O=EPS D
> Entering DSGetUserContext.
> os version = 4
> Preferred Tree = EPSD_TREE_______________________
> Set Context to Tree = EPSD_TREE
> CreateContext = 2
> NWDSWhoAmI-2 returned (0)
"CN=100341.OU=Students.OU=LMMS.OU=Middle.O=EPS D".
> Verify TYPED (0) "CN=100341.OU=Students.OU=LMMS.OU=Middle.O=EPS D".
> Preferred Tree = EPSD_TREE_______________________
> Set Context to Tree = EPSD_TREE
> CreateContext = 2
> DSGetObjectAttrVal -- objectName -- CN=Student User
> Package:WinNT-2000-XP:Windows Group
> Policy.OU=ZFD3.OU=Policies.OU=LMMS.OU=Middle.O=EPS D
> DSGetObjectAttrVal -- attrName -- zenpolAssociation
> EXIT DSGetObjectAttrVal -- ccode -- 0
> ZENGetPolicyPackageDN -- packageDN -- CN=Student User
> Package.OU=ZFD3.OU=Policies.OU=LMMS.OU=Middle.O=EP SD
> EXIT ZENGetPolicyPackageDN
>
> *********
>
> The Laptop, in comparison for the same Group Policy Package has the
> following:
>
> *********
> PACKAGE FOUND = CN=Student User
> Package.OU=ZFD3.OU=Policies.OU=LMMS.OU=Middle.O=EP SD
> FindPolicy - objectName = CN=Student User
> Package.OU=ZFD3.OU=Policies.OU=LMMS.OU=Middle.O=EP SD
> FindPolicy - attrName = zenpolPolicy attrType = zenwmGroupPolicy
> ZENGetObjectAttributes - attrName = zenpolPolicy objName = CN=Student User
> Package.OU=ZFD3.OU=Policies.OU=LMMS.OU=Middle.O=EP SD
> Enabled Policy = CN=Student User Package:WinNT-2000-XP:Windows Group
> Policy.OU=ZFD3.OU=Policies.OU=LMMS.OU=Middle.O=EPS D
> AddStringtoList -- Adding -- CN=Student User Package:WinNT-2000-XP:Windows
> Group Policy.OU=ZFD3.OU=Policies.OU=LMMS.OU=Middle.O=EPS D
> Enabled Policy(platformSpecific[4]) = CN=Student User
> Package:WinNT-2000-XP:Windows Group
> Policy.OU=ZFD3.OU=Policies.OU=LMMS.OU=Middle.O=EPS D
> IsStringInList -- zenwmGroupPolicy -- is already in the list.
>
> *********
>
> It appears that the workstation in question is having trouble resolving
the
> Effective policies. The laptop, on the other hand, has no such entries
> anywhere in the log about effective policies.
>
> If anyone has ideas I would love it. Uninstalling the 4.83sp1 client and
> reisntalling did not help. I've DSREPAIR'd the tree several times with
> Rebuild Operational Schema. WHen I uninstalled 4.83sp1 I checked the
> registry and the Novell subkey was cleared out.
>
> I'm burnt out on this one. If you want both log files, please post your
> email address without the @ symbol and I'll fire them off to you.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Bill Prehl
> Network Manager
> East Penn School District
> prehlb at eastpennsd dot org
>
>

Mandatory Profiles, Group Policy Preferences, Synchronous processing

Hello,
I'm using Windows 8.1 Update to setup a lab of computers that will use standard user accounts with Mandatory Profiles and Group Policy to lock them down. Everything is working great with the exception of Group Policy Preferences. I am using GPP printers
to add a shared printer to the computer lab and set the default. Due to asynchronous processing, the GPPs are applied only every other time. Since they are mandatory profiles, the settings are wiped out every time.
I have enabled the GPO setting "Always wait for network at startup and logon" but it doesn't seem to have any effect. The Mandatory Profile is assigned in the user's AD object.
From everything I can find on the issue, the problem seems to stem from the synchronous processing/asynchronous processing of group policy preferences, which explains the consistent alternating working. Fast logon optimization is always off when using a
roaming user profile, which is the case of these standard users, to my understanding. I also configured cached logons to '0', disabling cached logons. The computers (configured to automatically sign in with SysInternals' Autologon) received an error (no logon
servers available) trying to sign in before the network was ready, showing that they are ignoring the setting. Even with waiting for the network and signing in manually, the GPP printers are only successfully added every other time.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj573586.aspx
2008R2 functional level
I have created and recreated GPOs to test creating them on the DC and a Windows 8.1 Update computer, with no change in outcome.
I have also tried setting Startup policy processing wait time, run logon scripts synchronously, and GPP Printers processing behaviors. For the latest testing, I created a new OU with blocked inheritance and created a new GPO with just the key settings to
wait for network, install the printers, and use the mandatory profile. It still only worked every other time.
I am currently at a loss for a good way to add the printers to the mandatory profiles. I have hacked them into the HKCU of the mandatory profile but I feel that is a kludge solution and not very sustainable. I have tried a logon PowerShell script but had
no luck.
TL;DR: Win8.1Update, Mandatory Profiles, standard user: Every other restart, GPP Printers are added perfectly and the desired outcome is reached. Every other, other restart the printers are not added.

Hi,
I'll involve other engineer to this thread for more discussion about your problem. Please wait patient.
Thank you for your understanding!
Roger Lu
TechNet Community Support

Group Policy not work in some client machine.

Hello All,
Existing environment is AD 2012. gpupdate /force command does not working in some client machine. And it's occur randomly. Error shown about 15-20% of client machine. Please suggest. Hopefully this time get reply from community.
The Error:
User policy could not be updated successfully. The following errors were encount
ered:
The processing of Group Policy failed. Windows attempted to read the file \\example.net\sysvol\example.net\Policies\{31B2F340-016D-11D2-945F-00C04FB
984F9}\gpt.ini from a domain controller and was not successful. Group Policy set
tings may not be applied until this event is resolved. This issue may be transie
nt and could be caused by one or more of the following:
a) Name Resolution/Network Connectivity to the current domain controller.
b) File Replication Service Latency (a file created on another domain controller
has not replicated to the current domain controller).
c) The Distributed File System (DFS) client has been disabled.
Computer policy could not be updated successfully. The following errors were enc
ountered:
The processing of Group Policy failed. Windows attempted to read the file \\example.net\sysvol\example.net\Policies\{31B2F340-016D-11D2-945F-00C04FB
984F9}\gpt.ini from a domain controller and was not successful. Group Policy set
tings may not be applied until this event is resolved. This issue may be transie
nt and could be caused by one or more of the following:
a) Name Resolution/Network Connectivity to the current domain controller.

Thanks for your reply. basically this error occurs with in same location as well as branch location. i have check event log in AD but not got any specific error. AD health status is ok. AD to AD synchronization also working well. All the client machine running
on windows 7 64 bit and few of them are windows 8.
Please suggest. if you need any event log for analysis i can send you.
Thanks
I recommend you examine the event logs upon an affected client machine. Specifically, look for the surrounding events on that machine (both System, and Application logs), for the hours previous and the hour after.
The time period may vary according to your environment (e.g. what is expected/normal for your environment, your configured GP refresh cycle-time).
e.g., are there network drops, or power drops, or system crashes, restarts at the similar time.
if it's a laptop, is it wireless? Was there a transition from wireless to wired operation?
Is there VPN in use?
If you are able to compare with another machine (I would encourage that), to understand what "normal" looks like in the logs, so that you have some kind of baseline data for comparison.
Other checks, maybe confirm that the machines are updating as required (have the relevant WindowsUpdates etc), and consider if some security/protection/firewall software might be interfering with normal Windows operations.
Also the potential for malware or virus, which can disturb many basic services (ensure a scan is performed and returns clean).
If you have the opportunity for an affected user to contact you urgently when the symptom occurs, check that the gpt.ini file is accessible from their PC.
e.g.: \\example.net\sysvol\example.net\Policies\{31B2F340-016D-11D2-945F-00C04FB
984F9}\gpt.ini
This file is hosted within the replicated SYSVOL share on your DC's, so check that it is accessible.
You might also validate the particular GPO this refers to, and check each of your DC's holds the correct copy of the files for that GPO GUID.
If you open that GPO, and perform a minor change to it (e.g. add a comment), then click Apply, OK, this should cause the GPO contents to replicate an updated version (be cautious, depending upon the nature of that GPO !!!)
Don
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