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Doc, User Manager? And you only have one GPO ? You have to be pulling my leg here, or I'm just missinterpeting you. Could you elaborate that '1' GPO ? =)



Well it's in ADUC but most people still seem to like to call it User Manager.

Speaking for myself I don't want/need to show/demonstrate the power of policies. If it doesn't give me a specific ROI then I don't use a GPO.
I use a GPO to turn off the XP firewall inside. Yeah I could spend my time setting up the firewall so that everything I want to do remotely works, but that takes a bit more time and resources to test than it does to just disable it. The perimeter is firewalled already and chances are low that anything internal would cause a problem that the firewall would protect from. Most are actually Windows 2000 and they don't have it either.

I came from a Corporate Environment where the Admins in charge of Policies had implemented almost 40 GPOs and it really sucked. Most were for stupid things and caused slow logons.

Don't get me wrong though. If there is something that is business critical to have set correctly then policies are great and I'd probably use it but for now I don't have that issue. But policies just to set policies for visual looks is not my cup of tea, I don't really care if a user wants a bit different looking desktop.