Refreshing AD user's group membership (no logoff)

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Why

Traditionally, group membership changes are only reflected when an AD account logs in. This set of commands is intended to be run on the machine and does require the user’s input (password)

1. Terminate explorer.exe in Task Manager
2. Restart explorer.exe through the RunAs command:

RunAs /user:DOMAIN\usernamehere explorer.exe

The user will be prompted to input their password - there is no visible input when typing the password in this field, for obvious security reasons.

Once explorer.exe has re-opened, the user’s group memberships have been refreshed.