I've been struggling with a problem on my domain where executing the gpupdate /force command (or just gpupdate) on our client computers fails to work. I can run the command successfully if I access the server remotely, but it doesn't seem to apply to the clients directly. I've been troubleshooting this issue for the last 15 days without any luck. I've confirmed that the DNS entries are correct and that the clients can access the SYSVOL and NETLOGON folders without any issues.
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What kind of error are you getting when you try to run the command on the clients? Knowing that could help narrow down the problem!
Are your clients possibly cloned machines that weren’t set up with sysprep? If they are, Active Directory might think they've already pulled the latest GPO updates because they share the same installation ID, even with different machine names.
That's a great point! We don’t really do proper cloning, so I’m not sure how we’d set that up. What’s the process for removing them from AD and adding them back after reimaging?