Tag: Computer Configuration
Configure Logon Script Delay
Enter “0” to disable Logon Script Delay. This policy setting allows you to configure how long the Group Policy client waits after logon before running scripts. By default the Group Policy client waits five minutes before running logon scripts. This helps create a responsive desktop environment by preventing disk contention. If you enable this policy setting Group Policy will wait for the specified amount of time before running logon scripts. If you disable this policy setting Group Policy will run scripts immediately after logon. If you do not configure this policy setting Group Policy will wait five minutes before running logon scripts.
Enable Group Policy Caching for Servers
This policy setting allows you to configure Group Policy caching behavior on Windows Server machines. If you enable this policy setting Group Policy caches policy information after every background processing session. This cache saves applicable GPOs and the settings contained within them. When Group Policy runs in synchronous foreground mode it refers to this cache which enables it to run faster. When the cache is read Group Policy attempts to contact a logon domain controller to determine the link speed. When Group Policy runs in background mode or asynchronous foreground mode it continues to download the latest version of the policy information and it uses a bandwidth estimate to determine slow link thresholds. (See the “Configure Group Policy Slow Link Detection” policy setting to configure asynchronous foreground behavior. ) The slow link value that is defined in this policy setting determines how long Group Policy will wait for a response from the domain controller before reporting the link speed as slow. The default is 500 milliseconds. The timeout value that is defined in this policy setting determines how long Group Policy will wait for a response from the domain controller before determining that there is no network connectivity. This stops the current Group Policy processing. Group Policy will run in the background the next time a connection to a domain controller is established. Setting this value too high might result in longer waits for the user at boot or logon. The default is 5000 milliseconds. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting the Group Policy client will not cache applicable GPOs or settings that are contained within the GPOs. When Group Policy runs synchronously it downloads the latest version of the policy from the network and uses bandwidth estimates to determine slow link thresholds. (See the “Configure Group Policy Slow Link Detection” policy setting to configure asynchronous foreground behavior. )
Configure Group Policy Caching
This policy setting allows you to configure Group Policy caching behavior. If you enable or do not configure this policy setting Group Policy caches policy information after every background processing session. This cache saves applicable GPOs and the settings contained within them. When Group Policy runs in synchronous foreground mode it refers to this cache which enables it to run faster. When the cache is read Group Policy attempts to contact a logon domain controller to determine the link speed. When Group Policy runs in background mode or asynchronous foreground mode it continues to download the latest version of the policy information and it uses a bandwidth estimate to determine slow link thresholds. (See the “Configure Group Policy Slow Link Detection” policy setting to configure asynchronous foreground behavior. ) The slow link value that is defined in this policy setting determines how long Group Policy will wait for a response from the domain controller before reporting the link speed as slow. The default is 500 milliseconds. The timeout value that is defined in this policy setting determines how long Group Policy will wait for a response from the domain controller before determining that there is no network connectivity. This stops the current Group Policy processing. Group Policy will run in the background the next time a connection to a domain controller is established. Setting this value too high might result in longer waits for the user at boot or logon. The default is 5000 milliseconds. If you disable this policy setting the Group Policy client will not cache applicable GPOs or settings that are contained within the GPOs. When Group Policy runs synchronously it downloads the latest version of the policy from the network and uses bandwidth estimates to determine slow link thresholds. (See the “Configure Group Policy Slow Link Detection” policy setting to configure asynchronous foreground behavior. )
Allow asynchronous user Group Policy processing when logging on through Remote Desktop Services
This policy setting allows Microsoft Windows to process user Group Policy settings asynchronously when logging on through Remote Desktop Services. Asynchronous user Group Policy processing is the default processing mode for Windows Vista and Windows XP. By default Window Server processes user Group Policy settings synchronously. If you enable this policy setting Windows applies user Group Policy settings asynchronously when logging on through Remote Desktop Services. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting Windows Server applies user Group Policy settings synchronously. Note: This policy setting applies only to computers running Remote Desktop Services.
Turn off automatic learning
This policy setting turns off the automatic learning component of handwriting recognition personalization. Automatic learning enables the collection and storage of text and ink written by the user in order to help adapt handwriting recognition to the vocabulary and handwriting style of the user. Text that is collected includes all outgoing messages in Windows Mail and MAPI enabled email clients as well as URLs from the Internet Explorer browser history. The information that is stored includes word frequency and new words not already known to the handwriting recognition engines (for example proper names and acronyms). Deleting email content or the browser history does not delete the stored personalization data. Ink entered through Input Panel is collected and stored. Note: Automatic learning of both text and ink might not be available for all languages even when handwriting personalization is available. See Tablet PC Help for more information. If you enable this policy setting automatic learning stops and any stored data is deleted. Users cannot configure this setting in Control Panel. If you disable this policy setting automatic learning is turned on. Users cannot configure this policy setting in Control Panel. Collected data is only used for handwriting recognition if handwriting personalization is turned on. If you do not configure this policy users can choose to enable or disable automatic learning either from the Handwriting tab in the Tablet Settings in Control Panel or from the opt-in dialog. This policy setting is related to the “Turn off handwriting personalization” policy setting. Note: The amount of stored ink is limited to 50 MB and the amount of text information to approximately 5 MB. When these limits are reached and new data is collected old data is deleted to make room for more recent data. Note: Handwriting personalization works only for Microsoft handwriting recognizers and not with third-party recognizers.
Specify startup policy processing wait time
This policy setting specifies how long Group Policy should wait for network availability notifications during startup policy processing. If the startup policy processing is synchronous the computer is blocked until the network is available or the default wait time is reached. If the startup policy processing is asynchronous the computer is not blocked and policy processing will occur in the background. In either case configuring this policy setting overrides any system-computed wait times. If you enable this policy setting Group Policy will use this administratively configured maximum wait time and override any default or system-computed wait time. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting Group Policy will use the default wait time of 30 seconds on computers running Windows Vista operating system.
Turn off Local Group Policy Objects processing
This policy setting prevents Local Group Policy Objects (Local GPOs) from being applied. By default the policy settings in Local GPOs are applied before any domain-based GPO policy settings. These policy settings can apply to both users and the local computer. You can disable the processing and application of all Local GPOs to ensure that only domain-based GPOs are applied. If you enable this policy setting the system does not process and apply any Local GPOs. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting Local GPOs continue to be applied. Note: For computers joined to a domain it is strongly recommended that you only configure this policy setting in domain-based GPOs. This policy setting will be ignored on computers that are joined to a workgroup.
Change Group Policy processing to run asynchronously when a slow network connection is detected.
This policy directs Group Policy processing to skip processing any client side extension that requires synchronous processing (that is whether computers wait for the network to be fully initialized during computer startup and user logon) when a slow network connection is detected. If you enable this policy setting when a slow network connection is detected Group Policy processing will always run in an asynchronous manner. Client computers will not wait for the network to be fully initialized at startup and logon. Existing users will be logged on using cached credentials which will result in shorter logon times. Group Policy will be applied in the background after the network becomes available. Note that because this is a background refresh extensions requiring synchronous processing such as Software Installation Folder Redirectionand Drive Maps preference extension will not be applied. Note: There are two conditions that will cause Group Policy to be processed synchronously even if this policy setting is enabled:1 – At the first computer startup after the client computer has joined the domain. 2 – If the policy setting “Always wait for the network at computer startup and logon” is enabled. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting detecting a slow network connection will not affect whether Group Policy processing will be synchronous or asynchronous.
Configure Direct Access connections as a fast network connection
This policy setting allows an administrator to define the Direct Access connection to be considered a fast network connection for the purposes of applying and updating Group Policy. When Group Policy detects the bandwidth speed of a Direct Access connection the detection can sometimes fail to provide any bandwidth speed information. If Group Policy detects a bandwidth speed Group Policy will follow the normal rules for evaluating if the Direct Access connection is a fast or slow network connection. If no bandwidth speed is detected Group Policy will default to a slow network connection. This policy setting allows the administrator the option to override the default to slow network connection and instead default to using a fast network connection in the case that no network bandwidth speed is determined. Note: When Group Policy detects a slow network connection Group Policy will only process those client side extensions configured for processing across a slow link (slow network connection). If you enable this policy when Group Policy cannot determine the bandwidth speed across Direct Access Group Policy will evaluate the network connection as a fast link and process all client side extensions. If you disable this setting or do not configure it Group Policy will evaluate the network connection as a slow link and process only those client side extensions configured to process over a slow link.
Turn off Group Policy Client Service AOAC optimization
This policy setting prevents the Group Policy Client Service from stopping when idle.