Thursday, 23 September 2010

Group Policy Processing - Refresh intervals

Worth having this information to hand as I always tend to forget the default refresh intervals.
They are:

Standard computers - every 90 minutes with a random offset of 0 to 30 minutes. GPO for computers is also updated whenever a restart is performed.

Domain Controllers - every 5 minutes.

This can then be configured differently using GPO:
  • Computer Configuration - Administrative Templates - System - Group Policy- Group Policy refresh interval for computers
  • Computer Configuration - Administrative Templates - System - Group Policy - Group Policy refresh interval for domain controllers

The refresh interval can be as small as 0 minutes (which means it refreshes every 7 seconds), and as large as 45 days.

Refresh offset times can also be changed for between 0 minutes and 24 hours.

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