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Process Group Policy Remotely

By pacerfan9

I was working on a Group Policy issue and wanted to remotely force a Group Policy update and check the result without commandeering an end users workstation. To solve this I used the Sysinternals utility PsExec which Executes processes remotely. One nifty trick is that you can also execute PsExec remotely as well. To accomplish this I executed the following command…

\\live.sysinternals.com\tools\psexec.exe \\computername gpupdate

To check the outcome you can execute the command…

gpresult /s computername /user username

For faster performance and better security I recommend downloading the full Sysinternals suite and executing PsExec locally.

This entry was posted on August 25, 2008 at 7:55 pm and is filed under Nifty Tricks, Useful Commands, Windows Administration. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

2 Responses to “Process Group Policy Remotely”

  1. Darren Mar-Elia Says:
    August 25, 2008 at 8:37 pm

    You might also want to check out my free remote GP refresh utility–comes in .exe and PowerShell cmdlet formats: http://www.gpoguy.com/rgprefresh.htm

  2. pacerfan9 Says:
    August 26, 2008 at 4:00 pm

    I tested your utility and it worked as well. Interestingly I just browsed your site yesterday and then you found my blog. How in the world did you stumble across my little bitty blog? You have some excellent info at your site and I will be a frequent visitor.

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