<p>After a recent group policy change, I have noticed that new settings are not being applied to one of the servers.</p>
<p>After some investigation, I have noticed that the SYSVOL folder is not syncing properly and that there is a different list of policies on 2 Domain Controllers.</p>
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<p>I was also getting errors by Group Policy not being applied with an Unknown Error message.</p>
<p>We are using a mixed environment with Windows Server 2008 and 2012 Domain Controllers. Until we solve this issue we have to change the Domain Controller from which this policy was applied from.</p>
<p>Connect to the server that has the wrong policy applied.<br />
Type <strong>gpresult /r</strong><br />
Check the line: <strong>Group Policy was applied from:</strong><strong> %servername%</strong></p>
<p>To change the Domain Controller that applies the GPO for the problematic server here&#8217;s what you need to do:</p>
<p>Open <strong>CMD</strong> on the server and type the following command:<br />
<strong>nltest /Server:ClientServerName /SC_RESET:%domainname\domaincontrollername%</strong></p>
<p>After the change update the policy with <strong>gpupdate /force</strong> command. Now your server should receive the correct policy.</p>

Group Policy not being applied
