Using the Group Policy Tools
The Group Policy tools in Windows XP Professional and Windows Server 2003 contain a lot of improvements. The sections following this one describe each of these tools and how to use them. Some of these enhancements deserve special mention, though. First is Group Policy Update Tool (Gpupdate.exe). Group Policy refreshes policies every 90 minutes by default. In Windows 2000, if you change a policy and want to see the results immediately, you had to use the commands secedit /refreshpolicy user_policy and secedit /refreshpolicy machine_policy. Gpupdate.exe replaces both of these commands in one easy-to-use command.
Second is RSoP. Windows XP Professional includes new tools for seeing which policies the operating system is ...
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