My environment consists of only (2) DCs. One DC at each Site. Both are Win
2012 R2.
All my Sysvol information (policies, scripts, etc.) seems to be replicating
fine between the two DCs. However, once or twice a day, at random times, on
the main DC (schema master, PDC emulator, etc.) I see event ID 1058 messages in
the event System log.
"The processing of Group Policy failed. Windows attempted to read the file
\\mydomain.local\sysvol\mydomain.local\Policies\{31B2F340-016D-11D2-945F-00C04FB984F9}\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."
Now, oddly enough, every time I try, I can successfully access that file. The
GUID corresponds to our Default Domain Policy. Running gpupdate/force on the
DC results in everything looking good even though I see those errors in the
event log randomly (but never when I just run gpupdate /force). There also
seem to be no DFRS/replication issues from looking at the logs. Yet, once or
twice a day, this error occurs.
I'm wondering, is there any reason I can't DELETE the Default Domain Policy
completely and re-create it with the same settings? I've never attempted to
delete the Default Domain Policy, but I can't forsee any reason why it couldn't
be delete and re-created like any other GPO? Hoping maybe that will fix the
random error.
JR
