After some recent infrastructure changes, I noticed that certain group policies were not being applied due to network connectivity lag as a result of how our systems were setup. To resolve this, I stumbled on a post that describes a Group Policy setting that can force the computer to wait for full network connectivity before logon.
To enable this setting:
- Open the Local Group Policy Editor
- Expand Computer Configuration
- Expand Administrative Templates
- Expand System
- Expand Logon
- Enable the Always wait for the network at computer startup and logon setting
- Restart your computer