Since there’s no time-out period defined, the system uses its own algorithm to calculate and arrive at an Average time-out period. This value is stored in the above registry location. It could vary system to system, and depends on various factors, such as previous login attempts. The Group Policy description for “Startup Policy processing wait time” is not verbose and doesn’t cover all scenarios. This is called the background security refresh and is valid for every version of Windows Server.

Every 16 hours, each Group Policy client asks Active Directory about all the GPOs that contain security settings not just the ones that have changed and reapplies those security settings. To avoid this issue, you should give local administrator accounts only to some privileged users that cannot work with local administrator rights or give local admin rights only to those applications that privileged users need to run.

You should never give regular users administrative rights. As described above, the background security refresh updates all security-related policy settings every 16 hours. You can choose to mandate the reapplication of the following areas of Group Policy during each initial policy processing and background refresh:.

To recap, when you change a GPO in Active Directory , it will be automatically applied at the next refresh interval; you can also force a refresh to apply it immediately to your client systems. As an extra safety measure, you can set up mandatory reapplication to ensure that certain Group Policy settings are always reapplied, even if they have not changed.

This enables you to revert any unwanted changes made by local administrators. If you are having slow group policy processing times, is there any way to actually tell which GPO it is that is causing the problem? Are there any tools or specific commands you can use to emulate how long it would take to process each policy?

When you’ve loaded a debug log into that program you can look at the numbers next to each GPO extension name to see how long each individual GPO extension took to process its settings and see which GPOs it was that made it process them. Yeah its annoying that isn’t it We had the same issue on Windows 7 along with a lot of other people according to google and never really got to the bottom of it ended up using SCCM to deploy software instead.

We had some success with disabling spanning tree on the network ports that users connected to on our managed switches, going on the theory that it was failing to install the software because it didn’t have a network connection early enough in the boot up process as spanning tree waited for about 40 seconds to make the port live when a PC booted up but it didn’t solve the problem completely.

Thanks for the help and advice so far guys. I have determined our problem was the folder redirection client side extension.

On the problematic computers, this is where it was pausing for by far the longest – often well over a minute, sometimes a few minutes. I noticed we had a few GPOs that were overlapping, so I’ve simplified the structure of it, and checked to see if it made any difference. On at least one computer so far, we have refreshed GP and rebooted twice to ensure changes were made, we have the option “Always wait for network at first logon” set to “Disabled” and success!

The speed came down significantly. There are a couple of other places where it is pausing for longer than it should. One is shortcuts extension which I can address. However, this hotfix is intended to correct only the problem that is described in this article. Apply this hotfix only to systems that are experiencing the problem described in this article. This hotfix might receive additional testing. Therefore, if you are not severely affected by this problem, we recommend that you wait for the next software update that contains this hotfix.

If the hotfix is available for download, there is a “Hotfix download available” section at the top of this Knowledge Base article. If this section does not appear, contact Microsoft Customer Service and Support to obtain the hotfix. Note If additional issues occur or if any troubleshooting is required, you might have to create a separate service request. The usual support costs will apply to additional support questions and issues that do not qualify for this specific hotfix.

For a complete list of Microsoft Customer Service and Support telephone numbers or to create a separate service request, go to the following Microsoft website:. If you do not see your language, it is because a hotfix is not available for that language.

The English United States version of this hotfix installs files that have the attributes that are listed in the following tables. The dates and the times for these files on your local computer are displayed in your local time together with your current daylight saving time DST bias.

Additionally, the dates and the times may change when you perform certain operations on the files. Prevent Microsoft Teams from starting automatically after installation. Set this GPO setting before you install Teams. Install Teams using the machine-based installer. Microsoft recommends excluding the Media-Stack folder from roaming. Citrix has a PowerShell script that can disable this setting for each user. Also see:. A common architecture is to enable FSLogix Office Container for the Office cache files and use Citrix Profile Management for all other roaming profile files and registry keys.

Notice that per-device licenses are excluded. See Licensing Requirements at Microsoft Docs. Here is some info on group policy configuration:.

Microsoft has a per-machine installation of the OneDrive sync client. To reduce the size of your roaming profiles, the per-machine install is strongly recommended over the normal per-user install of OneDrive. Some of the settings in this section might require the newer Windows Group Policy Templates. This setting requires the Office GPO templates to be installed. For Windows 10 and newer or Windows Server and newer. Make sure the OneDrive. On Windows 10, this might cause the desktop to appear sooner.

Configure the following so you can shadow users using Director:. If you are using Provisioning Services, it might be desirable to move the event logs to a persistent cache disk. This allows you to review the event logs even after the Target Device reboots. Use Group Policy Preferences to create the folder on the cache disk. Windows 10 group policy settings for controlling Internet connectivity and Privacy Settings can be found at Microsoft Technet Manage connections from Windows operating system components to Microsoft services.

Or wait 90 minutes. If you want pass-through authentication for the Citrix Receiver that is installed on your VDAs, use receiver. If not, then write a logon script to move the files. Is there any other way to move it some other place,. If it is kept in Default location, then it would need storage space of C Drive, correct?

We are really stuck in a situation that we have excluded Onedrive folder from Citrix profile UPM folder by using citrix policy but it still folder is getting created. OneDrive probably creates the folder on each logon. Excluding folders from UPM only prevents it from being saved at logoff.

So I have to reboot the 3 VDAs from the vcenter to make it work. Would you advise for or against it? We are attempting to but it is proving quite difficult and time consuming to go through all the settings, and when we run into trouble figure out which setting it is that needs to be changed.

We are setting up a new Horizon VDI environment. Any ideas of what GPO setting could be causing this before I go and troubleshoot each setting one at a time?

If so, remove that setting. Something else within the Computer GPO is causing the entire desktop and start menu to not have any of the apps showing installed, including apps like AutoCAD. Check the user policies that are assigned to the computer. All seems to be working now, thanks! Carl, I apologize and I am sure you have answered this but I need some guidance. Currently when users switch between VDA servers Acrobat will constantly ask them to sign in.

Only 2 servers they can log on to but everyday they are asked to sign in. Log them off Citrix, back on to the same server and again, asking to log in. Can you help guide me on what I am missing to make this work? What roaming profile tool are you using? However we are using a NUL license so does that cause an issue? Is there a potential way around this? Hey Mercer, not sure if you figured it out yet or not but I went through the same problem. The solution is rather simple, add these keys in the registry.

Once done the user will be prompted to log in again and it will store the info in the user profile so it roams around. I have not deep dived into this page before or those registry keys. I did make the changes to the keys but then users were not able to even log into Adobe. I will review more about this page those.

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The discussion so far applies only to new GPOs and changes to existing ones. However, sometimes you might want to apply all GPOs to a computer — not just new or changed GPOs but old ones as well.

This command can be used for Group Policy remote update of Windows client computers. Here is an example of using this cmdlet to force an immediate Group Policy update on a particular computer:.

The RandomDelayMinutes 0 parameter ensures that the policy is updated instantly. The only downside to using this parameter is that the users will get a cmd screen pop-up. This code will get all computers from the domain, put them into a variable and run the commands for each object. All Group Policy clients process GPOs when the background refresh interval comes to pass — but they process only those GPOs that are new or have changed since the last time the client requested them.

However, for security settings, the Group Policy engine works differently. It asks for a special background refresh just for security policy settings. This is called the background security refresh and is valid for every version of Windows Server. Every 16 hours, each Group Policy client asks Active Directory about all the GPOs that contain security settings not just the ones that have changed and reapplies those security settings. To avoid this issue, you should give local administrator accounts only to some privileged users that cannot work with local administrator rights or give local admin rights only to those applications that privileged users need to run.

You should never give regular users administrative rights. As described above, the background security refresh updates all security-related policy settings every 16 hours. You can choose to mandate the reapplication of the following areas of Group Policy during each initial policy processing and background refresh:. To recap, when you change a GPO in Active Directory , it will be automatically applied at the next refresh interval; you can also force a refresh to apply it immediately to your client systems.

As an extra safety measure, you can set up mandatory reapplication to ensure that certain Group Policy settings are always reapplied, even if they have not changed. This enables you to revert any unwanted changes made by local administrators. Go Up. Originally published February, and updated May, Forcing a Group Policy Update Imagine that you get a phone call from the security specialist who handles your firewalls and proxy servers.

Handpicked related content:. Jeff Melnick. He is a long-time Netwrix blogger, speaker, and presenter. New VHDX, redirections. After that, even when I remove the redirections.

FSLogix policy settings are burned into the registry and removing the GPO does not remove the setting. Thanks for all your helpful information. Thanks for pointing that out. I also found problems in the OneDrive. Have you tried Known Folder Move? Are you referring to the Antivirus exclusions.

That seems to be an old link that is no longer valid. I just removed it. Thanks for pointing it out. Hi Carl, made the switch to FSLogix. Love the product, but see one major flaw. It does not retain user printers after they set them. Can you guide me on a workable solution for this? Same problem as this thread?

Yes, but I have that policy configured. We provide a VDI to our users. There local printers are mapped, but they are also able to map certain printers on their VDI. Hi Carl — so we are running into an issue with session lock ups. This seems to happen when only accessing Citrix from external network sources. I am running XenApp 7. User seem to be working fine for 5 to 10 minutes then sessions lock and they are no longer able to access the published application. Only resetting session clears.

Wondering if there is something you know of that could be causing session locks or somewhere to check to see what could be the issue. Can you run other applications e. Need to determine if the whole session is locked, or just the app. According to the users experiencing these issues is the whole session. So if user has two applications running both applications are in a locked state. I was able to reproduce this issue.

Seems sessions lock up after 2 to 3 minute period of idle time. It locks up all applications I have open. Is there a policy I do not have set correctly? I followed your policy setting almost to the letter with regard to time out session. I followed the settings for Application presentation that applied to my environment.

When the user session is idle for 15 mins application went locked state,Citrix session is locked not the local machine,can you helpe to fix it? Iam using 7. Hi Mohanraj -I believe the issue to be a Network driver on our particular laptops.

If you do use Dell laptops update the Wireless drivers to latest Intel driver. Also make sure the following. Wireless Properites Advanced Tab Dual Band Great article s — you are a true lifesaver! Do you have any idea how to get this right?

Hello Carl, we are still in the build phase of our new environment and made the decision to move the Citrix Computer and User policies in Active Directory instead of storing them in the SQL Database.

I think they only apply when you perform a Citrix connection. Some will be under HDX nodes. Others will be under the nodes that are numbered based on session ID. I do know about the registry key that would show under.

Either way, I do not see any of our policies applying in the folder. Does the Group Policy Management console need to be installed on a delivery controller for managing the Citrix policies in Active Directory?

After getting passed that, I got a drop-down box to see the names of the Delivery Groups. Nothing is listed and I cannot manually type it in. Is what I am attempting to perform a supported operation? We have opened a case with Citrix on this issue. According to Citrix , we have everything setup correctly and meeting the criteria.

We have a single GPO that only contains Citrix policies only. We have full control to that policy as well as Group Policy Modeling permissions and they do not seem to apply. We have confirmed the permissions are set correctly on the policy itself for delegation and scope.

Now it is just trying to figure out how to capture the logging in process to see where it skips the policy or refuses to apply it. I was able to figure it out as to why the policies set in GPO were not applying. At our top level Citrix OU, we have inheritance turned off. I am also doing dedicated full desktop for Windows 10, any specific settings from there that could help for that setup? Hi Carl.

I have XenApp 7. No works over ICA. I have a scenario in my VDI environment. I uninstalled OneDrive I need version I have Xenapp 7. Citrix does not do that, so it has to be something else. Carl and others, Does the event log policy create the folder or does that need to be pre-created.

Also how does this work for custom logs from an application under application logs. For example if I have an app that writes its log under applications and services win2k16 How do I redirect that? Does the policy allow me to create a custom entry. Forgive me if these are newbie questions.

In case it is possible, how should I do that? The individual policy objects in the folder do not inherit parent permissions.

I am assuming that I would need to do this on any domain controller or build a central store. What do you recommend? Do have an idea of what to check? Seems with latest updates to , Microsoft has created per user Services, which flood the event log and show pop-up errors to users on XenApp on occasion. Excellent post. So I found this post as I was facing issues with XA7. Cortana and SearchUI are filling the event logs full of errors when a user log into the Desktop. Also, left clicking on the start menu brings up nothing which of course is a problem but right clicking does bring up the context menu.

Start Menu is quite the challenge. My Profile Management article has info on how to roam it. Thank you very much for this Carl and all the excellent articles on your site, you should include a Donate button somewhere on your front page as you are making a lot of peoples lives a lot easier….

Hello Carl, Hope you are doing well and thanks for the instructions. Thanks, Pavan. For the most part, yes. There are some minor differences e. I usually have a parent OU for common settings everything in this article and sub-OUs for Delivery Group-specific settings. Thanks Carl.

If you say delivery group specific settings will that be application related? Great Article. I dont know how I would survive without these easy to use guides. One question though.. I usually just do the optimizations built into the VDA. I have a colleague that tested many optimizations and noticed no difference in performance. Then create sub-OUs, one for each Delivery Group.

The computer objects for the Citrix brokering infrastructure machines Controllers, StoreFront, Director, etc. Within Group Policy Management Console gpmc. Or you can link it to Delivery Group-specific sub-OUs. On the right, switch to the Details tab. This GPO will only contain computer settings.

These GPOs will only contain user settings. Find your Citrix Admins group, and click OK. On the top half, click the Citrix Admins group to highlight it. Scroll down to reveal the Apply Group Policy row, and then place a check mark in the Deny column. Click OK to close the Security Settings window. Click Yes when asked to continue. The deny entry is only needed on the Lockdown GPO. Download the Administrative Templates. Run the downloaded Administrative Templates. In the Welcome to the Administrative Templates.

Click Next. In the Ready to install Administrative Templates. In the Completed the Administrative Templates. Open the PolicyDefinitions folder. Highlight all. Also highlight your desired languages e. Copy the files and folders to the clipboard. If prompted, replace the existing files. Overwrite the existing files. Microsoft Teams Prevent the per-user version of Teams from installing with Office aka Microsoft apps. The Machine-wide installer does not update itself.

You must periodically download the latest version, uninstall the Machine-wide installer, and install the latest version.

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How to Force a Group Policy Update and Refresh It in the Background

 
 

Restart the computer and check if the problem with slow GPO applying persists. If it persists, it is likely that the problem is in the computer itself or the local group policies try to reset them to default ones.

In Windows, you can enable the display of detailed status information that allows users and the administrator to visually understand at what stage of computer loading the greatest delay is observed. If you enable this policy, the information about GPO components being applied is also displayed. You can enable this policy in the following GPO section:. The same parameter can be activated via the registry.

This report is quite convenient for the analysis and contain references to errors when applying GPO. In the application log, the EventID from Winlogon with the following message can evidence of the slow policy application:. According to this event, a user had to wait till group policies were applied during the boot for almost an hour…. When analyzing the log, pay attention to the time between two neighboring events.

It can help to find the problem component. In some cases it is useful to enable GPO processing debug log — gpsvc. For more information about how to troubleshoot Group Policy by using event logs, visit the following Microsoft TechNet website:.

General information about how to troubleshoot Group Policy by using event logs For more information about software update terminology, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:.

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Any more feedback? The more you tell us the more we can help. Can you help us improve? Resolved my issue. Clear instructions. Easy to follow. No jargon. Pictures helped. This policy setting affects all user accounts that interactively sign in to a computer in a different forest when a trust across forests or a two-way forest trust exists.

If you enable this policy setting, the behavior is exactly the same as in Windows user policy is applied, and a roaming user profile is allowed from the trusted forest. This policy setting overrides customized settings that the program implementing the software installation policy set when it was installed.

If you enable this policy setting, you can use the check boxes provided to change the options. If you disable or don’t configure this policy setting, it has no effect on the system. The “Allow processing across a slow network connection” option updates the policies even when the update is being transmitted across a slow network connection, such as a telephone line. Updates across slow connections can cause significant delays. The “Process even if the Group Policy objects have not changed” option updates and reapplies the policies even if the policies haven’t changed.

Many policy setting implementations specify that they’re updated only when changed. However, you might want to update unchanged policy settings, such as reapplying a desired policy in case a user has changed it. This policy setting overrides customized settings that the program implementing the disk quota policy set when it was installed. The “Do not apply during periodic background processing” option prevents the system from updating affected policies in the background while the computer is in use.

When background updates are disabled, policy changes won’t take effect until the next user sign in or system restart. Many policy implementations specify that they’re updated only when changed. However, you might want to update unchanged policies, such as reapplying a desired setting in case a user has changed it.

It overrides customized settings that the program implementing the encryption policy set when it was installed. You can only set folder redirection policy for Group Policy objects, stored in Active Directory, not for Group Policy objects on the local computer. This policy setting overrides customized settings that the program implementing the folder redirection policy setting set when it was installed. This policy setting overrides customized settings that the program implementing the Internet Explorer Maintenance policy set when it was installed.

However, you might want to update unchanged policies, such as reapplying a desired policy setting in case a user has changed it. This policy setting overrides customized settings that the program implementing the IP security policy set when it was installed.

This policy setting affects all policies in the Administrative Templates folder and any other policies that store values in the registry. It overrides customized settings that the program implementing a registry policy set when it was installed.

It overrides customized settings that the program implementing the scripts policy set when it was installed. If you disable or don’t configure this setting, it has no effect on the system. This policy setting overrides customized settings that the program implementing the security policy set when it was installed. Many policy implementations specify that they be updated only when changed.

It overrides customized settings that the program implementing the wired network set when it was installed. It overrides customized settings that the program implementing the wireless network set when it was installed. This policy setting specifies how long Group Policy should wait for workplace connectivity notifications during startup policy processing.

If the startup policy processing is synchronous, the computer is blocked until workplace connectivity is available or the wait time is reached. If the startup policy processing is asynchronous, the computer isn’t blocked and policy processing will occur in the background.

In either case, configuring this policy setting overrides any system-computed wait times. If you enable this policy setting, Group Policy uses this administratively configured maximum wait time for workplace connectivity, and overrides any default or system-computed wait time.

If you disable or don’t configure this policy setting, Group Policy will use the default wait time of 60 seconds on computers running Windows operating systems greater than Windows 7 configured for workplace connectivity.

This policy setting doesn’t affect administrators. If you enable or disable this policy setting, by default administrators can view RSoP data. This policy setting exists as both a User Configuration and Computer Configuration setting. Prevents the system from updating the Administrative Templates source files automatically when you open the Group Policy Object Editor. Administrators might want to use this option if they’re concerned about the amount of space used on the system volume of a DC.

Changing the status of this setting to Enabled will keep any source files from copying to the GPO. This policy setting prevents Group Policy from being updated while the computer is in use. This policy setting applies to Group Policy for computers, users, and domain controllers. If you enable this policy setting, the system waits until the current user signs out the system before updating the computer and user settings.

If you disable or don’t configure this policy setting, updates can be applied while users are working. The frequency of updates is determined by the “Set Group Policy refresh interval for computers” and “Set Group Policy refresh interval for users” policy settings. If you make changes to this policy setting, you must restart your computer for it to take effect.

These policy settings can apply to both users and the local computer. For computers joined to a domain, it’s strongly recommended that you only configure this policy setting in domain-based GPOs.

This policy setting will be ignored on computers that are joined to a workgroup. If you enable this policy setting, users aren’t able to invoke a refresh of computer policy. Computer policy will still be applied at startup or when an official policy refresh occurs.

If you disable or don’t configure this policy setting, the default behavior applies. By default, computer policy is applied when the computer starts up. It also applies at a specified refresh interval or when manually invoked by the user. This policy setting applies only to non-administrators. Administrators can still invoke a refresh of computer policy at any time, no matter how this policy setting is configured.

Also, see the “Set Group Policy refresh interval for computers” policy setting to change the policy refresh interval. This policy setting determines whether the Windows device is allowed to participate in cross-device experiences continue experiences.

If you enable this policy setting, the Windows device is discoverable by other Windows devices that belong to the same user, and can participate in cross-device experiences. If you disable this policy setting, the Windows device isn’t discoverable by other devices, and can’t participate in cross-device experiences. If you don’t configure this policy setting, the default behavior depends on the Windows edition.

Changes to this policy take effect on reboot. If you enable or don’t configure this policy setting, Group Policy caches policy information after every background processing session. This cache saves applicable GPOs and the settings contained within them. When Group Policy runs in synchronous foreground mode, it refers to this cache, which enables it to run faster.

When the cache is read, Group Policy attempts to contact a logon domain controller to determine the link speed. When Group Policy runs in background mode or asynchronous foreground mode, it continues to download the latest version of the policy information, and it uses a bandwidth estimate to determine slow link thresholds.

The slow link value that is defined in this policy setting determines how long Group Policy will wait for a response from the domain controller before reporting the link speed as slow. The default is milliseconds. The timeout value that is defined in this policy setting determines how long Group Policy will wait for a response from the domain controller before determining that there’s no network connectivity. This waiting period stops the current Group Policy processing.

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