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Computer policy could not be updated successfully

Windows Server 2012

<p>You might receive the following error message when trying to apply the group policy settings&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Computer policy could not be updated successfully&period; The following errors were encountered&colon;<&sol;strong><br &sol;>&NewLine;<strong>The processing of Group Policy failed&period; Windows could not apply the registry-based policy settings for the Group Policy object LocalGPO&&num;8230&semi;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><img class&equals;"alignnone wp-image-3532 size-full" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;wincert&period;net&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2020&sol;02&sol;gpo-not-aplying&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Computer policy could not be updated successfully" width&equals;"792" height&equals;"223" &sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Upon checking the event log I have noticed that <strong>Event 1096<&sol;strong> is related to the error message above&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><img class&equals;"alignnone wp-image-3533 size-full" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;wincert&period;net&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2020&sol;02&sol;gpo-not-aplying2&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Computer policy could not be updated successfully" width&equals;"575" height&equals;"191" &sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>After checking the <strong>Details tab<&sol;strong> I could see that the data is corrupted for the <strong>registry&period;pol<&sol;strong> file located at <strong>C&colon;&bsol;Windows&bsol;System32&bsol;GroupPolicy&bsol;Machine&bsol;registry&period;pol<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><img class&equals;"alignnone wp-image-3535 size-full" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;wincert&period;net&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2020&sol;02&sol;gpo-not-aplying4-1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Computer policy could not be updated successfully" width&equals;"458" height&equals;"311" &sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In order to solve this problem&comma; we have to delete the registry&period;pol file located at <strong>C&colon;&bsol;Windows&bsol;System32&bsol;GroupPolicy&bsol;Machine&bsol; folder&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>After deletion of <strong>registry&period;pol<&sol;strong> file try to run group policy update from the command prompt using <strong>gpupdate &sol;force<&sol;strong> command&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-3536" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;wincert&period;net&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2020&sol;02&sol;gpo-not-aplying5&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"409" height&equals;"43" &sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;

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