Gpupdate cannot find the file specified

Group Policy Scheduled Tasks settings might have its own log file. Error - The system cannot find the file specified. Improve this question. Aideux Aideux 61 1 1 silver badge 7 7 bronze badges. I couldn't do the Windows Update as we manage updates via WSUS and I don't want these machines to be ahead of the other ones on the domain. How many machines suffer the same issue? They all received their Windows installation via MDT. Because we're dealing with windows here, then my best bet is just to follow what I've already wrote.

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Saturday, September 5, AM. This is a bit odd. I'm starting to think this aWindows 10 bug. Sunday, September 6, PM. Hi, Thanks for sharing your detailed test steps. Regards, Ethan Hua Please remember to mark the replies as answers if they help, and unmark the answers if they provide no help. Monday, September 7, AM. Otherwise, the policy will be applied immediately without the reboot.

Sometimes you may need to update quickly the group policies on multiple computers because you changed the internet proxy settings or maybe to replace a printer for example. There are couple of ways to run GPUpdate on a remote computer.

This will update the user and computer policies on all the computers in the given organization unit. The nice thing is that it will as for confirmation and show you how many computers are going to be updated. After you have confirmed the update the policies will be updated and you can see the status of each computer. In this example 5 computers where turned off, so the update failed. We can also use PowerShell to run gpupdate on remote computers.

The only requirement is that you have Windows or later. Archived Forums. Group Policy. Sign in to vote. Hello, Seeing a lot of Event ID across the entire domain. Group Policy Registry shows failed, with the following error: Group Policy Registry failed due to the error listed below. The system cannot find the path specified. All machines are reporting this error as far as I can tell -GPResult shows the same error.

Thank you! Wednesday, April 18, PM. Received hotfixe s from Microsoft. Neither appear to be applicable to my machine. KB the one you provided and KB, one which seemed more directly related to my error.