I am trying to enable group policy through Active Directory on machines that have local group policy already set up. Does anyone have a tool that i can use that will quickly reset the group policy? Anything is appreciated. Sam

if you run gpupdate /force on the client machines it will refresh the group policy on those clients...for example, you make a change on the server and want the stations to see that new update without a reboot. unless I've understood your question wrong?

well that would work if the machines had group policy set up through Active Directory. However, These machines have group policy set up locallly on the machine.And since local takes precedence over Active Directory, then i need a way to just get rid of the local group policy all together so that i can push out the active directory. Thanks for all your help Sam

i take it you are NOT on a domain right? because if you were on a domain when the machines are joined to the domain Group Policy takes over. (only thing you would need to do is setup individual policies) local group policy is only for use when the computers are not in a domain. And since you've setup active directory i'm assuming you mean on the server and its now a domain controller? i'm still unsure of your setup so I might be missing something again =\

Yeah i am on a domain. It just not all the machines are taking the domain group policy, because they already have local set up. I am talking about 100 machines out of about 1000 that arent taking the domain group policy. Do you know of any ways to just reset local group policy to null, (a fast way) because i dont want to go to all these computers :-( Thanks again for all your help! Sam

well the only thing i can think of is to drop the clients from the domain and re add them...but that does not seem like a good solution since its 100 of them...i know thats a pain in the rear. i've never specifically ran across this problem...where most worked and some didnt. i'll keep searching but i know somewhere there has to be an easier way to do this over the network.

Yeah, ill keep searching too. Thanks for all your help! Anyone else out there have a solution to my problem? Sam