Windows 10: "Applying group policy printer policy": School devices getting stuck while booting from a login

Greetings,I work at a school in Australia. Just recently, when a student or staff logs into a laptop that is joined to the schools domain, it will get stuck on "applying group policy printer policy" for roughly 10-15 minutes.At first, we believed it was printers that were showing offline in print managment. Once I manually turned on these printers, laptop that were being logged into for the first time would take less than a minute to load. Now, it seems to be happening again. I checked the The devices are using Windows 10 Education version 22H2. Windows Server are all using Server 2022. This h

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Group policies not applying to devices

I have been setting up group policies for servers so we can control how and when servers are being updated. I am starting to have a problem as when I see the result of the policy its saying Filtering: Denied (Security).

The way I set them up is that I created two security groups on AD and added half of the servers on one group and the rest on the other. The reason I did this as I dont want to have all servers update and restart the same day/week. When I created the policy
I set all the settings and then I came to the part where I think I am having the issue. I created the policy at the toppest part of the AD Forest so all devices can see it. I remove the Authenticated Users permission from the scope security filtering as this
was adding the policy to the computers as well and not just the servers and added the group I created. On the delegation tab I added the Authenticated Users group back but gave it rights for read only and removed the apply policy. Then I set the group I created
to have read and apply policies.

This is not working so I tried to link the policies directly to the OU of the servers with the same permissions as before and still the same problem. Can please anyone let me know if it is possible to set policies without Authenticated Users group?

 

Windows 2016 Domain - Group Policies not applying to OU

So we have a domain and have various group policies (some apply to computer settings, some apply to user settings)

If we link a computer group policy directly to the root of the domain, policy works fine and everything is great.

If we take the same policy, remove it from the domain root, move the computer account to a sub OU and then link the group policy to that OU, the policy no long works.

There is no security filtering enabled, using "Authenticated Users" as scope.

If we run the Group Policy Results wizard, it only shows policies that are being applied in the root domain. No group policies located in OU show up.

No errors are showing besides a message saying "fast link detected"

If we run the Group Policy Modeling and specify user and computer, it shows the group policy should be applied.

Have tried adding "Domain Computers" also as a scope, same results.

Don't have any "Loopback Processing" enabled on any of the parent group policies.

I'm stuck!

 

Couldn't connect to windows group policy service????

Hi,

Thank you for posting in Microsoft Community, we appreciate your interest in Windows 10.

I understand the inconvenience you are facing as with error: Couldn't connect to windows group policy service, we will help you with this issue.

Do let us know when exactly you received this error code?

This issue might have occurred due to corrupted user profile, User Profile Service or Group Policy Client service stopped working, or Antivirus software conflicts.

I suggest you to check with the following and check if it helps.

Group Policy Client service, this service is responsible for applying settings configured by administrators for the computers and users through the Group Policy component. If the service is disabled
the settings will be applied and applications and components will not be manageable through Group Policy.

Step 1: Stop the Group Policy Client service.

• Press Windows Key + R on the keyboard and type
  services.msc, Services window gets opened.
• Search for Group Policy Client service, right click on it and click on
  Stop.
• Restart the computer.

Step 2: Start
the service and set it to Automatic:

• Press Windows Key + R on the keyboard and type
  services.msc, Services window gets opened.
• Search for Group Policy Client service, right click on it and click on
  Properties.
• Start the service, set
  Startup type to Automatic.

Hope it helps. Reply to the post with an updated status of this issue for further assistance.