Group Policy not synchronizing across member domain controllers and not applying to client computers as well

Francis Nyirongo 0 Reputation points
2023-01-26T14:56:54.6733333+00:00

We have three domain controllers, the primary and two secondary domain controllers, Once we create group policies on the primary domain controller show to only to group policy console on the other domain controllers but they cannot be shown on sysvol folders, client computers as well cannot get group policy settings from the domain all the domain controllers are Windows Server 2019.

Error message below:

Computer policy could not be updated successfully. The following errors were encountered:

The processing of Group Policy failed. Windows attempted to read the file \(domain name)\SysVol(domain name)\Policies{1C2E6929-A734-45C9-92A9-166D25A74015}\gpt.ini from a domain controller and was not successful. Group Policy settings may not be applied until this event is resolved. This issue may be transient and could be caused by one or more of the following:

a) Name Resolution/Network Connectivity to the current domain controller.

b) File Replication Service Latency (a file created on another domain controller has not replicated to the current domain controller).

c) The Distributed File System (DFS) client has been disabled.

User Policy update has completed successfully.

To diagnose the failure, review the event log or run GPRESULT /H GPReport.html from the command line to access information about Group Policy results.

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  1. Limitless Technology 44,541 Reputation points
    2023-02-01T10:52:24.99+00:00

    Hi. Thank you for your question and reaching out. I’d be more than happy to help you with your query.

    The error message is indicating that there was a problem with the processing of Group Policy on the computer. The specific error is that Windows was unable to read the file gpt.ini from a domain controller.

    This issue can be caused by a few different things, as mentioned in the error message:

    1. Name Resolution/Network Connectivity: This error can occur if the computer cannot communicate with the domain controller to retrieve the necessary Group Policy information.
    2. File Replication Service Latency: This error can occur if the gpt.ini file has not yet been replicated to the domain controller that the computer is trying to communicate with.
    3. DFS client has been disabled: The error can occur when the Distributed File System (DFS) client has been disabled on the computer.

    To diagnose the failure, you can review the event log or run the command "GPRESULT /H GPReport.html" from the command line to access information about Group Policy results. This will give you a report of the Group Policy settings that were applied to the computer, and any errors that occurred during the processing of Group Policy.

    If the reply was helpful, please don’t forget to upvote or accept as answer, thank you.

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