Guide Issues Windows Domain Computer policy could not be updated successfully. The following errors were encountered Updated March 07 2025
C:\Users\username>gpupdate /force
Updating policy...

Computer policy could not be updated successfully. The following errors were encountered:

The processing of Group Policy failed because of lack of network connectivity to a domain controller. This may be a transient condition. A success message would be generated once the machine gets connected to the domain controller and Group Policy has successfully processed. If you do not see a success message for several hours, then contact your administrator.
User Policy could not be updated successfully. The following errors were encountered:

The processing of Group Policy failed because of lack of network connectivity to a domain controller. This may be a transient condition. A success message would be generated once the machine gets connected to the domain controller and Group Policy has successfully processed. If you do not see a success message for several hours, then contact your administrator.

To diagnose the failure, review the event log or run GPRESULT /H GPReport.html from the command line to access information about Group Policy results.

Run:

Copy to ClipboardGPRESULT /H GPReport.html


The Fix is usually a DNS fix, set the DNS server 1 to be the Domain Controller. Make sure you can ping domainname and domainname.local and server.domainname.local


Other things to check:
https://community.spiceworks.com/t/gpo-failing-due-to-lack-of-connectivity-with-dc/775207/10




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