Re: apply local policy - real time or not?

From: Phil Margolies (@)
Date: 03/30/03

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    From: "Phil Margolies" <p m a r g @ b e l l s o u t h . n e t>
Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2003 10:50:23 -0500

    At a command prompt:

    To immediately impose group policy object settings located within the
    "machine" node of relevant group policy objects:
    secedit /refreshpolicy machine_policy /enforce

    To immediately impose group policy object settings located within the "User"
    node of the relevant group policy objects:
    secedit /refreshpolicy user_policy /enforce

    See Microsoft Knowledge Base: Q203607 How to Modify the Default Group Policy
    Refresh Interval

       -Phil

    "YuLei" <commyulei@yahoo.com> wrote in message
    news:02cb01c2f692$25938c40$a101280a@phx.gbl...
    >
    > I remember that after changing local policy, it will not
    > take effect until either reboot or using some command to
    > trigger the change to take effect.
    >
    > If that's right, can someone point it out what command or
    > action needs to do? Thx.
    >
    > Yu

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