How to perform Group Policy Update using GPMC To confirm the settings have applied you can view the Firewall rules configured on the computer affected (see images below). Now that the firewall rules are created you will need to wait at least 2 hours to ensure that rules have propagated… Now repeat steps 6 and 7 for each of the 5 rules to make sure each rule only applies to the “Domain” profile. Click on the “Advanced” tab and un-check the “Private” and “Public” profiles. Right click on the firewall rules and click on the Properties of the firewall rule. This ensures that these ports are now open when you are connect on a public or home network connection. Optional: Now that you have enabled the firewall rules it is advisable that you go back and change the scope of the rule change to only apply in the Domain Profile. Now repeat steps 2 to 5 and this time select the “Windows Management Instrument (WMI)” option. Click on “Predefined” option and then select the “Remote Scheduled Tasks Management” rule then click “Next” Open the policy to Computer Configurations>Policies> Windows Settings> Security Settings> Windows Firewall with Advanced Security then right click on Windows Firewall with Advanced Security and click on “New Rule…” Tip: It is conceivable that you will want to create a new GPO linked at the domain level so that it will be enabled automatically for all computers but this is of course up to you. Edit a Group Policy Object that is targeted to the computer objects that you want to enabled this feature. Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI-IN).Remote Scheduled Tasks Management (RPC-EPMAP).Remote Scheduled Tasks Management (RPC).The required firewall rules that need to be enabled on the client are: To configure this you need to make sure that this is done at least two hours in advanced to allow the policy changes to propagate. Firewall Prerequisites for Group Policy Updateīefore this feature works you first need to configure the firewall to on all the remote client computers to allow GPMC to configure the remote task to perform the remote policy update. I have mentioned this feature in my previous post What’s new with Group Policy in Windows 8 but I have now updated the screen shots and added the required firewall configuration changes to enabled this feature. Note: This means if the computer is offline for any reason then they policy will not be updated on the computer. This feature is fairly simple implementation with the GPMC console just scheduling the task to run remotely on any computer that is online at the time is run. This feature works by creating a scheduled task on the workstations to run the gpupdate command within the next 10 minutes.
“Group Policy Update” is a feature that allow IT admins to forcibly update group policy on all the computer in an OU.