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Group Policy will not work on one PC

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by pawebz22 1 view

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I have one user who's PC will not turn on the account lockout policy. It is a new Dell Optiplex 745. The old PC had no such problem. When I swapped the new one out with the old PC, the old PC account lockout worked after the set 15 minutes, also I hooked the new PC up at my desk and it worked fine from my desk. I am able to manually lock the work station. I have used gpupdate /force, and that does not work. What am I missing?

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by christopher.evans

I support a large number of PCs & Laptops - found that the GX745 will load a handful of GPO Policies and then the Secedit.sdb will corrupt (C:\Windows\Security\Database). With Admin Rights, you can kill the Secedit.sdb and use a GPUPDATE /Force to build a new file and apply all of the GPOs .. still looking into why the file corrupts in the first place .. appears to be platform specific.

by pawebz22

Your reply makes sense, and although I have other GX745's this is the only one that gave me headaches. It is now being used as a spare, but will I definitely try your solution if it happens again.

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