Get new group membership to apply a GPO to a computer without a restart

If you add a computer to an AD group that is assigned to a GPO, you need to restart the computer to get the new group membership.

If you want to bypass this, you can delete the Kerberos ticket.

Run the following command as an admin to do this:
klist -li 0x3e7 purge

Et voila, your computer get its new membership!

After that you can run a gpupdate to apply the assgined Policies.

Import User Photo to Active Directory

If you want to have an image in Outlook, Skype for Business or SharePoint you can use the attribute thumbnailPhoto in Active Directory.

Doing it with Powershell:
Import-Module activedirectory
$UserPhoto = [byte[]](Get-Content C:\admin\User1.jpg -Encoding byte)
Set-ADUser User1 -Replace @{thumbnailPhoto=$UserPhoto}

You can use a software called ADPhotoEdit:
http://www.cjwdev.co.uk/Software/ADPhotoEdit/Download.html

Note:
- Image file size should be not higher than 10kb, because with every file you AD database will grow!
- The maximum image size is 100kb
- Pixel size 96x96 pixels is recommended

Update ADMX files for Windows 10 1709 in your Central Store

Download and install Windows_10_Fall_Creators_Update_1709_ADMX.msi

https://www.microsoft.com/en-US/download/confirmation.aspx?id=56121

All admx and adml files will be extracted to “C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Group Policy\Windows 10 Fall Creators Update (1709)\PolicyDefinitions”.

Now backup your actual Central Store folder:

 \\yourdomain.com\SYSVOL\yourdomain.com\Policies\PolicyDefinitions 

and after that, copy and replace the extracted ADMX and ADML files to the PolicyDefinitions folder.

For some reasons 5 amdl files are not in the other language folders... you have to copy the following adml files from en-us to all other folders, to avoid errors.

GroupPolicy-Server.adml
GroupPolicyPreferences.adml
MMCSnapIns2.adml
TerminalServer-Server.adml
WindowsServer.adml

After replication finished, you can administrate the new features of Win10 on all DCs.

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