Windows Server 2008 R2; all workstations are Windows 7. I have two servers. Server 1 Group Policy was updated and replicated successfully to Server 2. When someone reboots their pc and connects to the network, if they authenticate from server 1, the group policy is applied correctly. If they are authenticated from server 2, it fails with error:
The processing of Group Policy failed. Windows attempted to read the file \\company.com\SysVol\company.com\Policies\{91B01BF1-B9BB-4A8B-86D8-9A1C06548C2F}\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.
I created a text file srv1.txt on the server 1 (C:\Windows\SYSVOL\sysvol\domain) then went to server 2's same folder location and it's not there. I also created srv2.txt in the same location on server 2 and it never showed up on server 1.
When I typed in the dfsrmig /getglobalstate command on both servers they both responded with: DFSR migration has not yet initialized. To start migration please set global state to desired value.
Still trying to make the appropriate changes so that SYSVOL will replicate successfully.
First/full discussion here: http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/446762-group-policy-editing-assistance-needed?page=2#entry-301...