On occasion it takes 2 reboot cycles for GPO's to be applied. You can help mitigate that by making the computer wait for network on startup under the computer section, System/Group Policy ADM's.
Some computers do not get the NIC started before GP settings would be applied hence requiring a 2nd reboot to get the gp settings to take effect. From: Jason Gauthier [mailto:jgauth...@lastar.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2008 3:07 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: gpupdate/GPO All, I have one, or many, GPOs that are not apparently being applied on workstations. Through some testing, I have specifically found that IE settings are not really taking effect. That is, until, I manually run a gpupdate /force, and the reboot or logoff. Obviously, this is not really desired. Does anyone know why this would be happening, and how I can solve it? A GPO should be applied appropriately, without me mandating a forced update and reboot. Thanks, Jason ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
