Home page is set to Intranet by a Internet Maintenance GPO.
We would like to set 2 home page tabs for laptops with the Internet-accessible site on top and the Intranet site second so the users don't get an error when they open IE8 offsite.
I set up an IE8 GPP and assigned it to the laptop OU and set loopback processing to the user.
I rebooted and check gpresults and I see the policy in the list of applied policies.
I log in as a domain user and it is still going to the Intranet page.
So, as a test, I removed authenticated users group from the Internet Maintenance GPO and rebooted again. Now the laptop goes to the default www.msn.com website.
So, even with the conflicting GPO removed, the new GPP still doesn't configure the web page even though gpresult says it is applied.
I did a Google search and found previous posts that died with no clear solution that was confirmed to work.
What needs to be done to make this work?