group policy when you can't connect to a DC

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Hi,

I am just wondering if the group policy is still active on a server if the
server cannot contact the domain controller.
I am weighing up the merits of all the security settings being applied using
group policy to using a combination of group policy and local security
settings such as user right assignments etc.

Anyone have a doc on this ?.

Cheers,

DC.

 

[Philip Nunn]

if you login to the pc an it cannot contact the DC I'm pretty sure it uses
the last group policy settings that were applied. On a further note...when
you disjoin a pc from a 2k/2k3 domain the local gp is once again applied to
the computer with the factory settings.

Philip Nunn