Help troublshooting group policy not applying on Dell laptops

Question

I have a test network that I am using to teach myself group policy. I am using a Dell latitude 6410 laptop as the client machine. The laptop is joined to the domain, the laptop can access the sysvol folder and all of the subfolders and users can login to their accounts. The problem is, none of the group policies are applying to the user on the laptop. The group policies are all user policies. I have been troubleshooting this problem for a week with no luck. I have decided to clear all the gpo's from the client computer with this method.

Open My Computer / Computer
In the URL or address bar paste: %windir%\system32\GroupPolicy.
Right click and delete the: Machine and User folders to clear local group policy cache.
Restart the computer to reapply the group policies.

When I get to the group policy folder, it only contains the DATASTORE folder. There is no MACHINE and USER folder there for me to delete. The DATA STORE folder contains a folder named 0. Inside of that folder is the SYSVOL folder and all of the sub folders. How can I fix this error? It may be the cause of the GPO's not applying.
I also captured the gpsrvc log file from the client machine. It's too large to add the post, so I have a gdrive link posted. Can someone take a look at the log. I am trying to teach myself how to analyze the gpsrvc logs, but I'm still not understanding it.
any help will be greatly appreciated
This is the log file link:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Z-BJ1P9xgLFWbjJNybh3vRO2j1-mkhDp/view?usp=sharing

Thank you.

Answer 1

Okay so you are studying this from a beginning. That shouldn't be so hard, I think you are poking in the wrong direction. There are two good and simple troubleshoting method I use for GPO,

1. GPO results in GPMC console
2. gpresult /H c:\temp\gpo.hmtl (run as admin from client machine)

Also, make sure you have linked GPO to the right OU.

Answer 2

Thank you. I am not in front of the Gpmc right now. Please forgive my ignorance, I'm not totally understanding what you're saying. If you can, can you explain a little bit more. I do know that I'm looking at a distinguished name, which is a path to an object in active directory. I think that's the DIT. The user clay plaga is in the IT OU. I think I have a gpo linked to the IT OU. Here's the thing, the gpo's are not applying to any user, on any computer. What would the correct configuration be?
Let me get in front of the gpmc on Friday, and I'll try to make some sense of this. I'll get back to you.
Thank you bro.

Answer 3

Actually, are you aware that Group Policies are 20 years old and they are becoming legacy? Only if you stick with on-prem, and not going to the MS cloud services, they are valid for you. I don't see a point to study this area today from scratch :)