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Changing Default Group Policy Refresh Interval for Windows XP Clients |
| How can I change the default Group Policy refresh interval for our Windows XP clients from 90 minutes to 120 minutes, and the random offset value from to 45 minutes? |
| by Zubair Alexander |
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1/9/2008 -- By default, the user portion of Group Policy is refreshed every 90 minutes, with a random offset of 0 to 30 minutes. You can configure Group Policy restrictions to change this value. If this setting is disabled or not configured, the default values are used. It's best not to modify these values, unless you completely understand the ramifications.
Here's the procedure:
1. Open the Group Policy Object.
2. Go to User Configuration, Administrative Templates, System, group Policies.
3. In the right-hand pane, double-click Group Policy refresh interval for users.
4. Change the value from 90 to 120 minutes, and the random offset value from 30 to 45 minutes.
There are two important things to keep in mind. First, this setting can be applied to Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 computers. Second, don't specify a value of 0 minutes, or else the computer will try to update the policy settings every 7 seconds.
The procedure described above shows you how to update the user portion of the Group Policy. For the computer portion, you can modify the similar setting at Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\System\Group Policy.
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Zubair Alexander, MCSE, MCT, MCSA and Microsoft MVP is the founder of SeattlePro Enterprises, an IT training and consulting business. His experience covers a wide range of spectrum: trainer, consultant, systems administrator, security architect, network engineer, author, technical editor, college instructor and public speaker. Zubair holds more than 25 technical certifications and Bachelor of Science degrees in Aeronautics & Astronautics Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Information Systems. His Web site, www.techgalaxy.net, is dedicated to technical resources for IT professionals. Zubair may be reached at .
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| 1/9/08: Christopher Bell from Glossop, UK says: |
Funny thing. I always thought (and tests have shown it to be correct) that the group policy refresh is 90 minutes plus or minus 30 minutes (i.e. a number between 60 and 120 minutes). As for the zero minutes equals seven seconds - didn't seem to happen on my test rig. |
| 1/21/08: Anonymous says: |
90 minutes with an offset of 0-30 min is the same as 60-120 min. I've never tested zero minutes thing but I noticed that the policy description says setting to 0 will result in an update every 7 secs. pretty bizzare! |
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