Troubleshooting group policies
You should now be able to understand how to perform basic troubleshooting of Group group policies in Windows 10. We are not going to deep dive into every Group Policy because that is too much to cover in this book.
In general, when we refer to Group Policy, we are referring to Group Policy Objects (GPO) that contain Group Policy settings that are created by you as an IT administrator and are deployed to devices in a domain environment. Local Group Policy refers to policy settings that are locally administered and configured. A Group Policy can fail when applied to a Windows 10 device and there can be many reasons for this, such as incorrect GPO settings or a poor network connection.
Before you start investigating failed group policies, you can do a preliminary check in the following areas:
- Group Policy Client Service: Check whether this service has the status Running or Automatic in the
Services.msc
utility. - Network Connection: Verify...