I recently noticed some policies not being applied on our XP clients. After poking around a bit rsop is showing Group Policy Infrastructure - failed.
I took this info and began searching around and found the first case it that the network is not ready and "Always wait for the network at computer startup and logon" should be enabled. The thing is I've had this policy enabled for years and it shows up in the list of policies in rsop.
The thing is I've ran this in an elevated command prompt and it seem to process okay: gpupdate /force /target:computer
Not sure what else could be going on here.. Seem to me it's still not waiting for the network even through the policy is there?
The policy is set in "Various Machine Settings" which you can see in the computer configuration.