Dave- It will be tough to do this using "normal" policy without a reboot or some kind of triggering action. However, if you are in a position to deploy the Group Policy Preferences product, then you could use that product's ability to create Scheduled Tasks via GP to push a scheduled task to machines that does the restart for you. Darren From: gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Dave Palombi Sent: Friday, June 27, 2008 1:25 PM To: gptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [gptalk] change a service through group policy Hello, I would like to know if you can restart a service using group policy. Now the computer never gets rebooted and I have no access to the local drive as well. How would I be able to accomplish this? If there is a better way, please let me know. Thanks, Dave