Windows AD: Is loopback processing absolutely necessary in order to apply a user policy to users logging into computers in the OU?
- by Brett
I've had our AD setup running on server 2008r2 and now 2012, and I swear, a user policy applied to an OU containing only computers actually does apply to users logging into those computers, without loopback processing enabled.
Everything I read seems to say that is not how it should work, but it does. Is this normal behavior?
Just tested again - created a policy with a drive map (which is a user policy), applied it to an OU containing my terminal server, forced a gpupdate, logged out/in, and sure enough, the drive is mapped. I did NOT turn on loopback processing.