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WN16-CC-000150 - Group Policy objects must be reprocessed even if they have not changed.

Information

Registry entries for group policy settings can potentially be changed from the required configuration. This could occur as part of troubleshooting or by a malicious process on a compromised system. Enabling this setting and then selecting the 'Process even if the Group Policy objects have not changed' option ensures the policies will be reprocessed even if none have been changed. This way, any unauthorized changes are forced to match the domain-based group policy settings again.

Solution

Configure the policy value for Computer Configuration >> Administrative Templates >> System >> Group Policy >> 'Configure registry policy processing' to 'Enabled' with the option 'Process even if the Group Policy objects have not changed' selected.

See Also

https://dl.dod.cyber.mil/wp-content/uploads/stigs/zip/U_MS_Windows_Server_2016_V2R10_STIG.zip

Item Details

Category: CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT

References: 800-53|CM-6b., CAT|II, CCI|CCI-000366, Rule-ID|SV-224925r991589_rule, STIG-ID|WN16-CC-000150, STIG-Legacy|SV-88177, STIG-Legacy|V-73525, Vuln-ID|V-224925

Plugin: Windows

Control ID: c816a8afd0e741ae4318cd44d24c30053ae6aeb4118c28006281cbfbfbc90435