Locality Switch

You’ve just made some changes to your Group Policies, and are now waiting for it to update on the clients to see what the result is. Surly there must be a better way!

There is: It’s a command line tool called gpupdate, and it’s real simple.

Sit yourself down in front of a computer on the domain, and load up a command prompt. The quickest and dirtiest way to get it working is to type gpupdate /force - this will just force the system to grab all computer and user policies and apply them. If it needs the user to logoff and then log back on again, it will prompt you to do so, unless you add the /logoff switch to the end – this will force it to logoff.

All your waiting is over.