{"id":1740,"date":"2015-10-13T18:41:07","date_gmt":"2015-10-13T18:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/?p=1740"},"modified":"2018-09-06T23:15:37","modified_gmt":"2018-09-06T23:15:37","slug":"the-group-policy-client-service-failed-the-logon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/?p=1740","title":{"rendered":"The Group Policy client service failed the logon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you try to login to a client or server system and you get this error message below:<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;the group policy client service failed the logon.Access Denied&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/image001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1741\" src=\"http:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/image001.jpg\" alt=\"image001\" width=\"366\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/image001.jpg 366w, https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/image001-300x154.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 366px) 100vw, 366px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">Do the following to fix it:<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span lang=\"EN-US\">Logon to the machine with a machine <\/span><a id=\"x_x_KonaLink1\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sevenforums.com\/\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">administrator account<\/span><\/a><span lang=\"EN-US\"> (assuming this issue is with a domain account, if not logon to the machine using another account with administrative privilege).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"EN-US\">Move the machine to a workgroup from domain. (If it was part of one workgroup then change it to another one or join a domain.) You could do this through Control Panel\\System and Security\\System and then Change Settings.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"EN-US\">Restart the machine and logon with a machine administrator account.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"EN-US\">Delete your user profile data (or move it a different location) completely from c:\\users. &#8220;C&#8221; in my case is system directory but if you have a different one then use that one.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"EN-US\">Join the machine back to domain account (or to workgroup that the machine was originally joined to), and restart the machine.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"EN-US\">Logon with your domain account that you were having trouble with. Keep fingers crossed.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"EN-US\">If all goes well, you should be logged on.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong><span lang=\"EN-US\">Case select you will be logged on with a temporary user profile:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span lang=\"EN\">Login with Administrator account on the local machine.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"EN\">Open <strong>Regedit<\/strong>.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"EN\">Navigate to <strong>HKLM\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows NT\\CurrentVersion\\ProfileList<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"EN\">There should be a multitude of Registry keys inside the ProfileList and search for two identical ones which are differentiated by the .bak extension (e.g. xxxxxx1234.bak &amp; xxxxxx1234).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"EN\">The Registry key with the .bak extension contains the user&#8217;s actual profile while the one without the .bak contains the Temp profile.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"EN\">Delete the Registry Key WITHOUT the .bak extension and rename the one with it to xxxxx1234 (without the .bak). Notice the fields on the right, there should be a value named RefCount, change the value to 0.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you try to login to a client or server system and you get this error message below: &#8220;the group policy client service failed the logon.Access Denied&#8221; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Do the following to fix it: Logon to the machine with a machine administrator account (assuming this issue is with a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-tech-stuff","category-general-2003-stuff","category-general-2008"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1740"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1742,"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1740\/revisions\/1742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}