Slow link preventing the gpo from populating?

Gavin Wilby
IT Support Engineer

From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On 
Behalf Of Michael Leone
Sent: 02 October 2015 15:58
To: [email protected]
Subject: [NTSysADM] WSUS GPO seems inacessible but only for new members

This is odd. I have a GPO which assigns WSUS settings; criteria is that 
computer account must be in a specific OU, and a member of a specific AD group. 
This has been working well for years.

Now, we've added a couple new servers at a remote site, and so I set them up 
for WSUS (moved their machine accounts to the right OU, added them to the right 
group). In AD, that's what I see, and the changes have replicated to all DCs.

When I do a Group Processing Policy result for these accounts, it sees that the 
GPO is being listed as "inaccessible". Also, the GPO is being listed by it's 
GUID, and not it's name.

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I don't know what's up with that, as the other accounts that this GPO applies 
to properly show the GPO as applied, and with it's proper name. It's only these 
new members that are showing this. (I spot checked 3 or 4 other group members; 
they all show it as applied).

So what would cause these new members to not be able to read the GPOs (that's 
what inaccessible usually means, right?). The GPO is accessible to all the 
other group members, so it shouldn't be a permissions issue of the GPO itself, 
I wouldn't think.

Doing a "gpresult /r" on these new members, the group membership does NOT show 
the new groups the account belongs to, but DOES show that it is in the correct 
OU (I see the OU name in the CN). It says that Group Policy is being applied, 
as it is listing the 3 GPOs above as being DENIED, but doesn't show the last 
GPO (the WSUS one).

It DOES show the proper group memberships for the logged on user, too. (not 
that that is relevant to the GPO, but does sort of indicate that the machine is 
speaking to AD).

I see no errors in event log on the member server. Not seeing anything in the 
event log of the DC that the member says it is getting it's GPO info from, 
either.

Ideas as to where to go next? I have IP connectivity; the member is doing what 
it's supposed to do (some sort of security camera setup). It does run antivirus 
- Kaspersky for Windows Servers 8.0.2.213, like other servers. The AV policy 
shouldn't be blocking anything AD related ...





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