1 00:00:03,030 --> 00:00:03,810 Okay. 2 00:00:04,680 --> 00:00:09,030 So let's do a quick demo of how these various group policy updating tools work. 3 00:00:09,960 --> 00:00:15,690 The first thing I'm going to do is use update and I can get the syntax by using a slash question mark. 4 00:00:16,570 --> 00:00:20,200 And what you see here are a set of options that I talked about earlier. 5 00:00:21,090 --> 00:00:27,630 Everything from targeting either the computer or the user to forcing group policy processing to telling 6 00:00:27,630 --> 00:00:34,380 it to wait a certain essentially offset before it actually issues the group policy processing to log 7 00:00:34,380 --> 00:00:35,520 off or boot. 8 00:00:36,450 --> 00:00:41,580 These are options which essentially serve those synchronous client side extensions I mentioned, like 9 00:00:41,580 --> 00:00:48,030 software installation and folder redirection because those policy processing cycles don't run unless 10 00:00:48,030 --> 00:00:51,450 a synchronous foreground cycle occurs, which is on a computer. 11 00:00:51,480 --> 00:00:52,410 It's a reboot. 12 00:00:52,410 --> 00:00:54,300 And on a user, it's a log off. 13 00:00:54,330 --> 00:01:01,410 Log back on what log off and boot do respectively is set that synchronous flag and forced the user to 14 00:01:01,410 --> 00:01:04,080 log off or for the computer. 15 00:01:04,110 --> 00:01:08,550 The boot option sets the synchronous flag and forces the computer to restart. 16 00:01:09,450 --> 00:01:13,770 So you have to be sort of careful when you use those options for obvious reasons. 17 00:01:14,680 --> 00:01:15,690 The sink option. 18 00:01:15,700 --> 00:01:17,980 Actually, all it does is set the flag. 19 00:01:18,850 --> 00:01:25,060 So it says go ahead and set the flag for computer user or both to be synchronous during the next foreground 20 00:01:25,060 --> 00:01:26,170 processing cycle. 21 00:01:27,070 --> 00:01:32,410 So if that flag is set and that machine is rebooted, then that computer processing cycle that when 22 00:01:32,410 --> 00:01:34,720 it comes back up will be running synchronously. 23 00:01:35,630 --> 00:01:39,530 This is kind of a way of forcing synchronous on the next foreground cycle. 24 00:01:40,460 --> 00:01:43,250 So, you know, it's easy enough to use the command. 25 00:01:44,150 --> 00:01:50,930 You can just type update force and it runs both user and computer policy processing by default and it 26 00:01:50,930 --> 00:01:54,710 tells you when it's succeeded or if it fails, it will tell you that as well. 27 00:01:55,610 --> 00:01:59,480 So let me shift gears and show you the PMC way of doing this. 28 00:02:00,380 --> 00:02:06,500 Now again, this is a feature in server 2012, 2012 or two and Windows eight X. 29 00:02:07,400 --> 00:02:13,430 And what it allows you to do is pick up, oh, you, you can't do it at the domain level, but you can 30 00:02:13,430 --> 00:02:14,810 do it at the EU level. 31 00:02:15,710 --> 00:02:20,030 So it allows me to pick an oh you right click it and say group policy update. 32 00:02:20,940 --> 00:02:26,490 It goes out and looks at all of the computer objects that are in either that direct oyu or any sublease 33 00:02:26,490 --> 00:02:27,150 underneath it. 34 00:02:28,020 --> 00:02:30,780 And it in this case it found one computer. 35 00:02:31,660 --> 00:02:37,090 And what it'll do then is if I say yes here, it will go out and do a GP update force equivalent to 36 00:02:37,090 --> 00:02:38,740 all of the clients that it found. 37 00:02:39,610 --> 00:02:44,980 And you can see here that it found my Win7 client and succeeded to deliver that update. 38 00:02:45,850 --> 00:02:50,830 If there were errors, it would show lists of those computers that error it out and the error description 39 00:02:50,830 --> 00:02:52,300 in case that was relevant. 40 00:02:53,200 --> 00:02:55,480 And that is really all there is to it. 41 00:02:56,380 --> 00:03:02,230 As long as you have sufficient rights access over WMI and permissions to do a GP update remotely, you're 42 00:03:02,230 --> 00:03:02,920 good to go.