Disabling Group Policy Updates?

[FaultyWarrior]

Does anyone know of a way to stop Windows 8.1 Pro from accepting group policy updates without leaving the domain?

 

We have a domain-wide policy to set and enforce a power plan on our workstations, making the displays fall asleep after 10 min. and requiring a password to unlock the workstation after that.

 

I excluded my workstation from this section of the GPO using the targeting options; but it seems that my workstation gives precisely zero cares and won't stop putting my displays to sleep and locking my machine after 10 min, even after changing the power plan manually; which is super-annoying when reading long articles and not interacting with the machine.

 

Any ideas?  Our president's Surface Pro 3 keeps doing the same thing and it's driving him mad as well.

[blu4]

When you change the policy do gpupdate /force from CMD or PowerShell. To disable the PC/devices on the domain from getting GPO updates put them in a empty OU and block inheritance (right click container and select "block inheritance"). Before you do that though, make sure they picked up the policy you wanted them to have because the policy will skip them.

[FaultyWarrior]

When you change the policy do gpupdate /force from CMD or PowerShell. To disable the PC/devices on the domain from getting GPO updates put them in a empty OU and block inheritance (right click container and select "block inheritance"). Before you do that though, make sure they picked up the policy you wanted them to have because the policy will skip them.

I've tried doing gpupdate /force and all it does is re-enforced the GPO :angry:

 

I'll try moving myself to a different OU in a bit.  I'll be OK for me since I could care less about having any GPOs on my machine; but there are a few I want to enforce on the President's Surface b/c otherwise stuff like forced admin shares, RDP, and firewall rules get all messed up.  I'll play around and see what happens...thanks for the quick reply!

[blu4]

I've tried doing gpupdate /force and all it does is re-enforced the GPO :angry:

 

I'll try moving myself to a different OU in a bit.  I'll be OK for me since I could care less about having any GPOs on my machine; but there are a few I want to enforce on the President's Surface b/c otherwise stuff like forced admin shares, RDP, and firewall rules get all messed up.  I'll play around and see what happens...thanks for the quick reply!

Remember, you can always create another policy in that OU with blocked inheritance. Anything set before that, will be overwritten by the policy you make.