Computer policy could not be updated

Question

Hi All

On one of my VM i am getting below error updating group policy. Please guide me.

C:\windows\system32>gpupdate/force
Updating policy...

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

The processing of Group Policy failed. Windows attempted to read the file \\contoso.com\sysvol\contoso.com\Policies\{U8UBCDE9-06Y9-42LL-A00D-D876DJIKU75A}\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.

PS C:\windows\system32> Test-ComputerSecureChannel -verbose
VERBOSE: Performing the operation "Test-ComputerSecureChannel" on target "server01".
True
VERBOSE: The secure channel between the local computer and the domain contoso.com is in good condition.

Answer 1

It looks like the file indicated in the error message, gpt.ini is missing in the path > \contoso.com\sysvol\contoso.com\Policies{U8UBCDE9-06Y9-42LL-A00D-D876DJIKU75A}\gpt.ini

It could be a DFS replication issue. You may copy the file manually or forcefully start a DFS replication. Below reference is helpful to work on re-launching the DFS replication

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/windows-server/group-policy/force-authoritative-non-authoritative-synchronization

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