Re: Force GP update manually
- From: "Darren Mar-Elia" <dmanonymous@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 15:34:37 -0700
Here's the problem. First of all, you would need to do it for every GPO in
the domain or identify which GPOs will result in a refresh across all of the
machines, as was requested. In large environments, you would have to make
sure you did all of the changes on the same DC (probably the PDC emulator)
and ensure that someone else isn't coming along and overwriting your version
change with a normal GP change. Second of all, if the environment is Win2K,
and you don't also update the corresponding versionNumber attribute in the
corresponding GPC object, then version numbers will be mismatched and GP
won't process. Third, the revision numbers that are shown in the properties
of the GPO are derived from the version numbers, so if you just arbitrarily
add values to the version number, you will skew this data (1 for each
machine change and 65536 for each user change), in case that matters for
change control.
Finally, I just think its bad practice to recommend manually modifying the
contents of the GPT unless its an absolute need, and certainly not in a mass
way for something as regular as a GP refresh. I think approaching this from
a client perspective is much more reliable and less invasive.
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"Mark Heitbrink [MVP]" <spam-only@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> Darren Mar-Elia schrieb:
>> The are several problems with updating gpt.ini manually, [...]
>
> Hm, can´t see any problem with it.
> Its a simple textfile and its just a counter. Perhaps it´s not
> the best way to edit it 16times a day, but its the same that would
> happen, if I really edit the GPO 16times a day ...
> AFAIK the Version is not saved in AD.
>
> Thats what even MS recommends (Updating the version in gpt.ini), e.g.
> if you have to reset a DefDomPol or DefDomConPol
>
> Mark
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