Window 2000 AD - How to remove policy that was cached

[OTI2004]

Hi all,

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

our users on a window 2000 AD are divided into Organizational Units and each are assinged with a set of Group Policy.

When we edit any policies under Group Policy (Desktop Redirection for example), the new policy does not applies. In fact, existing user from this group tent to still take on the previous policy setting.

I did 2 tests:

1. Create new user and add to the exiting Organization group. This new user takes on the new policy.

2. Create a new Organization group and created new policy, move an existing user over. This user still take on the previous policy setting. Create a new user and added to this group, new user take on new policy setting.

The existing users seem to have the group policy setting cached somewhere on the server. We've tried to reboot the servers, have all PDC sycchronized and yet still run into the same issue.

Does any one have any input?

Thanks a million

Dat

 

[swabs]

you will need to run secedit /refreshpolicy if running on the local machine if it is in a windows 2000 environment. or gpudate if running in a windows 2003 environment.