A system administrator has made several critical security changes to Group Policy Objects (GPOs). These changes must be applied to all workstations immediately, overriding the standard refresh interval. The administrator also needs to ensure that all policies, not just the modified ones, are reapplied to prevent any inconsistencies. Which of the following commands should the administrator run on a client machine to meet these requirements?
The correct command is gpupdate /force. The gpupdate command is used to manually refresh Group Policy settings. The /force switch specifically reapplies all policies, regardless of whether they have been changed, and ignores the standard processing schedule. The gpupdate command without any switches only applies new or changed policies. The gpresult /r command is used to view the Resultant Set of Policy (RSoP) and see which policies are currently applied, not to enforce them. The /sync switch alters processing to synchronous mode but does not force a reapplication of all policies.
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