Group Policy and Laptops

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When a user attaches a laptop to our network the GPO settings take effect,
but the user wanted to know, once they remove it from the network, shut it
down, take it home are the GPO settings retained in a cache setting somewhere
or are all instances of the GPO Settings removed?

Thanks
 
CurtisC said:
When a user attaches a laptop to our network the GPO settings take effect,
but the user wanted to know, once they remove it from the network, shut it
down, take it home are the GPO settings retained in a cache setting somewhere
or are all instances of the GPO Settings removed?
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Take your workstation, shut it down, unplug it from network, startup
.... what happens?

Mark
 
The GPO settings are retained but not cached. Typically GPO settings are
made to the local file system or registry directly. They persist when no GP
processing happens. And in fact, for machines that are members of a domain,
if you try to circumvent domain policies by removing the machine from the
network and then editing the local GPO, the local GPO changes are simply
ignored until the machine comes back to the network.

Darren

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