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Do I really need to reboot for AD changes to be applied?

Fresh3 days ago
Mar 15, 202622756 views
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Every time I request a permission change the IT group at my company instructs me to wait 20 minutes and reboot the computer. I cannot believe that in this day and age you still need to reboot the computer to clear whatever cache stores the permissions locally. It feels like something out of the NT …

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Fix for: Do I really need to reboot for AD changes to be applied?

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It depends on what the "permission change" is. If they are adding you to a group, you will need to log off/on to effect the change. If they are adding your account, or a group you are already in, to a resource, you wouldn't need to to log off/on. FY…

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