One thing I might recommend here, for anyone really. If you're reasonably comfortable with PowerShell, download my GP Health Cmdlet (www.sdmsoftware.com/group_policy_health). You can use it for free for 10 queries. Basically what it will do is report on the health of GP on a target system, but more importantly, it points out stuff like whether loopback is enabled and what mode, slow link detected, what DC is being used, etc. . And it also lists a variety of other parameters on the target system, including whether GP processing overall is working, what GPOs and CSEs were processed and if they worked. Darren From: gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Winter.Mary Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 7:18 AM To: gptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [gptalk] User policy on a VMWare instance Thank you Alan and Darren. I did have a GPO with loopback processing applied. I meant it to be merge mode. I see that replace mode is the default. It must have been a very busy day, and I missed that. This instance is still in testing. Thank goodness for testing. ;) Thanks again for your help. Mary Collingwood Winter We Energies - IT Services Client Device Integration