GPO settings intermittently fail to apply

W2k3 domain, XP & 2000 clients

There are occasions where it takes random clients a couple reboots to get
established policy settings. I am not talking about getting new policy
changes, I am talking about established policy settings whereby one day the
computer gets the setting and the next day, they client does not have the
same functionality.

There is no pattern to this, it happens to xp or 2000 clients and is very
random. One user may have the issue one day, and then a couple hours later,
or after a reboot or 2 they are fine.
I have a fast network with fiber gbit backbone, spread over a couple city
blocks. THere are no logon or resouce access issues (slowness,etc).

When I run Rsop on the XP machines, before they reboot to try and fix the
problem, they all show that the correct policies applied. That's the weird
part.

Any suggestions as to what can cause these issue?
Thanks

Hello Bentley,

Try out if this policy helps:
Computer Configuration>Administrative Templates>System>Logon> Double-click
the "Always wait for the network at computer startup and logon" setting


Best regards

Meinolf Weber
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> W2k3 domain, XP & 2000 clients
>
> There are occasions where it takes random clients a couple reboots to
> get established policy settings. I am not talking about getting new
> policy changes, I am talking about established policy settings whereby
> one day the computer gets the setting and the next day, they client
> does not have the same functionality.
>
> There is no pattern to this, it happens to xp or 2000 clients and is
> very
> random. One user may have the issue one day, and then a couple hours
> later,
> or after a reboot or 2 they are fine.
> I have a fast network with fiber gbit backbone, spread over a couple
> city
> blocks. THere are no logon or resouce access issues (slowness,etc).
> When I run Rsop on the XP machines, before they reboot to try and fix
> the problem, they all show that the correct policies applied. That's
> the weird part.
>
> Any suggestions as to what can cause these issue?
> Thanks