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One interesting item to note here is that the gpsvc service is hosted under a particular instance of svchost. Having ruled out any other conflicting settings to further troubleshoot the issue we first needed to find out what the PID for the Group Policy service (gpsvc) was. We the Resultant Set of Policy (RSOP) tools using a couple of different methods such as Group Policy Management Console (GPMC) and RSOP.msc using the Microsoft Management Console (MMC) to see what policies are being applied to the domain controllers and ensuring that there were no other policies or settings superseding or otherwise trumping the default settings for domain controllers to refresh policy.
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Additionally, we can leverage this case study as an initiation on how to decipher Group Policy Service (gpsvc) debug logging. While this may sound like a corner case… which admittedly it is, the goal is to use this issue as an example to demonstrate how to start tracing and troubleshooting things such as seemingly random Group Policy updates being initiated from out of nowhere.
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But the Group Policy update still continued to happen every two minutes. We configured the GPO to only update policy every 90 minutes and applied it to the domain controllers Organizational Unit (OU).

We found that the Group Policy operational log on all domain controllers contained the following event pictured in the screenshot below.Ī Group Policy Object (GPO) was created as a stop gap mitigation strategy until we could find root cause for the Group Policy update spam. The default Group Policy update interval on domain controllers is five minutes.
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The issue as described to me was that on all Windows Server 2008 R2 domain controllers Group Policy updates have been happening every two minutes, on the dot. This is also one of the things that can be the most frustrating. One of the things I love about what we do on a daily basis is the fact that we get to work on some of the strangest issues. Hi My name is Lakshman Hariharan and I work for Microsoft as a Premier Field Engineer supporting Active Directory. First published on TechNet on Jun 01, 2014
