With some of our Windows clients, we have started to have problems with software installation GPOs not triggering no matter how many times the workstation is rebooted unless we set a GPO to always wait for network. It used to take no more than one extra reboot to enforce a software installation group policy assigned to a computer.
In the past, software installation would work if either a periodic background policy refresh interval elapsed, a manual gpupdate command was run or the systems rebooted once. Now software installation won't start unless "always wait for network" is enabled and "Startup policy processing wait time" is extended to 30 seconds or sometimes 1 minute or more.
Adding this extra wait time makes booting the workstations very slow (especially wireless laptops being used offsite) and wastes time when there is no software installation pending.
Any ideas what could cause this new problem?
Are there any other GPO settings or network settings that should be enabled to optimize reliability of software installation GPOs working with minimal boot delays?
