If you are managing computers by putting them into an Active Directory Domain, they you are applying group policies to computers.
gpupdate
Group policies are usually updated at login. If you want to force a group policy update, you would use the command gpupdate.
The syntax of gpupdate looks like the following: gpupdate /target:{computer|user} force where in place of computer|user you would specify a computer or user that you want to force a group policy update on. For example, if I had a user account named Bob, and I wanted Bob’s user account to receive a group policy update immediately, then I would issue the command: gpupdate /target:bob /force
gpresult
The command gpresult is used to see the policy settings for a computer or user. For example, gpresult /r would show the group policy settings for the computer you are on. You can also specify a user or computer to see the group policy settings. For example, if you wanted to see the group policy settings for Bob in the abc domain, you’d type this command: gpresult /user abc/bob /v
