Thursday, March 17, 2011

Event 1096 The processing of Group Policy failed.

We came across this issue and I think it's worth mentioning it here.

There was the laptop which was not getting any domain machine policy.  Looking at the GPRESULT policy event, it has a lot of Event ID 1096 errors "The processing of Group Policy failed.  Windows could not apply the registry-based policy settings for group policy object LocalGPO."

When you do a "gpupdate /force", you see errors like these:

"Computer policy could not be updated successfully. The following errors were encountered:
The processing of Group Policy failed. Windows could not apply the registry-based policy settings for the Group Policy
bject LocalGPO. Group Policy settings will not be resolved until this event is resolved. View the event details for mor
 information on the file name and path that caused the failure."

So, it turned out that the domain policy cannot be processed due to a problem with the local policy.   To fix this problem, the local policy file will have to be removed.  There is this registry.pol file located at:
c:\Windows\System32\GroupPolicy\Machine.  Rename this file to .bak or whatever and refresh the policy with a gpupdate /force.  The problem will go away.  The policy file could have been corrupted.

Source:  http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7itprosecurity/thread/ccf3b6ef-1321-46bc-95ae-03e534b5ae5c/
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12 comments:

  1. AnonymousJuly 22, 2011 at 6:43 AM

    Worked like a charm. Many thanks.

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  2. massideasNovember 15, 2011 at 7:18 AM

    Worked like a charm... thanks!

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  3. aceJanuary 25, 2012 at 6:28 AM

    Thanks.. :)

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  4. hollisFebruary 3, 2012 at 1:30 PM

    Excellent, thank you!

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  5. Jeff WheatleyMarch 20, 2012 at 9:41 AM

    Worked perfectly. Thank you!

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  6. AnonymousApril 25, 2012 at 10:52 AM

    Thanks this worked Great..

    Thank you

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  7. KahlessMay 10, 2012 at 9:48 PM

    Worked... Thanks

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  8. PaintyJune 21, 2012 at 8:29 AM

    You star. Worked perfect. Thanks.

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  9. UnknownNovember 29, 2012 at 4:46 AM

    Thanks, worked fine without restart

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  10. AnonymousJanuary 8, 2013 at 10:17 AM

    Fantastic!

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  11. RickJanuary 31, 2013 at 9:33 AM

    Had a system on our domain that would not hold mapped network drives. Could map them manually and checked reconnect but on reboot they were gone. Also this system would not save the UAC setting which should have been controlled by domain group policy. Moved slider to lowest level and tried disabling in registry but on reboot UAC was back to default and registry tick was gone. When I tried to force gpudate I got the error stated above. This fix resolved all issues.
    Thanks Ray!

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  12. Kaveman1978October 14, 2015 at 5:43 AM

    Worked for me as well. Many thanks!

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