Is there a way to apply a GPO to all but selective users? (SBS 2008)

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I've created a GPO in SBS 2008 that deploys and updates software. Unfortunately, one of our VPN users lives out in the sticks and has severe latency, so the start up processes and updates time out and take an awfully long time, if they ever complete at all.

I'd like to apply this GPO to all auth'd users except for him, without having to create a new custom user group. Any thoughts?

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