Troubleshooting Universal Group Caching

A tip on how to troubleshoot universal group caching if it doesn't seem to be working properly.

If you experience problems with universal group caching you can enable error logging for this feature by configuring the following registry value:

 

HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\NTDS\Diagnostics\20 Group Caching

 

Set this value to 5 to have full diagnostic information written to the Directory Service event log.

About Mitch Tulloch

Mitch Tulloch was lead author for the Windows Vista Resource Kit from Microsoft Press, which is the book for IT pros who want to deploy, maintain and support Windows Vista in mid- and large-sized network environments. Mitch was also the author of Introducing Windows Server 2008 and technical project lead for the Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 Resource Kit, both books also from Microsoft Press. For more information on these and other books by Mitch, see www.mtit.com .

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