Cannot copy files with Group Policy

Question

I created a GPO and wanted to use the Group Policy Management to copy files to another computers.

(Computer Configuration > Preferences > Windows setting >Files)

Action: Create
Source File: \\servername\abc\test.txt
Destination File: C:\abc\test.txt

However, no file is copied. Then, using the event viewer to view the log but the log had not any errors. So, I thought the problem is related to permission issue. I tried to create everyone in the abc folder. The share folder also allowed everyone to access. Using file copy with GPO still not works.

You can check if the GPO is applied on the target computer with the following command (as admin) `gpresult /h c:\temp\report.html /s system`. Can you see your GPO in the list ? — Swisstone, Apr 21 '20 at 09:49
Add the following registry key/values on the target computer, then `gpupdate`, and see what errors are in the log file: `HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Group Policy\{7150F9BF-48AD-4da4-A49C-29EF4A8369BA}` => `LogLevel` (Type: DWORD, Value: 3) and `TraceLevel` (Type: DWORD, Value: 2) and `TraceFilePathMachine` (Type: REG_SZ, Value: c:\temp\GPPFileTrace.log for example) — Swisstone, Apr 21 '20 at 11:24
@Swisstone Thank u so much. I found the errors from the log file. The error is the network path not found. So, I found that the source file path typo. It should type the absolute path. — Timothy T.T, Apr 23 '20 at 09:00

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited Nov 08 '22 at 16:10

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It seems that "Computer Configuration" can't copy files. Even if a PC account has full access to both directories.

Only "User Configuration" works fine

edited Nov 08 '22 at 16:10

Dave M

answered Nov 02 '22 at 10:49

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