Anyone here know the differences between gpupdate and gprefresh. Microsoft has documented well on gpupdate but there are not much information on gprefresh. As far as i know both of them are to refresh policy but i dun know the differences between two. Please also help to attached the gprefresh.exe command file if possible (file should be residing in c:\windows\system32). Thanks for your help.

Never heard of gprefresh or that it does exist in %systemroot%system32 folder...

Not sure about gprefresh... I wasn't aware it was included in XP.

Edited January 19, 200620 yr by cluberti

GPREFRESH was a command line tool for refreshing policy in Windows 2000 if I'm correct?

GPREFRESH was a command line tool for refreshing policy in Windows 2000 if I'm correct?

nope

i just tried "gprefresh" from a 2000 machine, and it's not recongnized

gprefresh was an XP-only tool - 2000 used secedit. However, I've not found gprefresh on any of my XP machines, and I don't see it on an XP gold machine either. It perhaps didn't make it out of the beta/rc stage and into the final product? I can't find any documentation either way, but I can say for sure that I do not see it on an XP RTM build, nor on an SP2 build - only gpupdate.

i never heared of that gprefresh

Well, it does get a mention here:

http://www.netdesk.com/articles_itpro/diagnostics.asp

I can't find it either in XP or 2000 Server, nor in 2000 Res Kit or XP Support Tools.