How to fix error 0x8007000d during GPUpdate (gpupdate.exe) on Domain Controller or Member server?
While working on your server you may come across the following error in the Application logs:
| Event Type: Error Event Source: Group Policy Local Users and Groups Event Category: (2) Event ID: 8194 Date: 11/26/2011 Time: 6:37:36 PM User: NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM Computer: SERVER1 Description: |
This is usually caused by a corrupt or malformed XML file in the local server’s group policy cache. This usually happens when there is a crash or unexpected shutdown of the server while a Group Policy update is taking place.
To resolve this issue, follow these steps:
Enable the tracing log for the registry and for the "service" client-side extension.
In the CSE log, search for "0x8007000d" to find the following information that indicates that the local cached XML file was corrupted:
| Time log [pid=0x148,tid=0x3b54] GPH data file : C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Group Policy\History\{GPO GUID}\Machine\Preferences\Services\Services.xml Time log [pid=0x148,tid=0x3b54] Completed parse of GPH XML. [ hr = 0x8007000d "The data is invalid." |
Search for the corrupted file, then rename the corrupted file or delete the corrupted file.
Finally, run the gpupdate /force command to allow for a new cached file to be created.
NOTE: you can check even directly the path C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Group Policy\History\ to find if there are, in the relative GPO folder, some corrupted XML files.