Hello, We are running Group Policy Preferences to map drives for our end users. Internally this works great as they are always connected to the network. If our laptop users start up their computers without connectivity to our internal network, the logon delay is significantly increased. If we take them out of the drive mapping GPO their logon time is back to acceptable. Is there any way to decrease the timeout that Windows will wait when attempting to connect to an unavailable network resource?

Hi, First of all, please advise me that if you use the roaming profile for those user? I would like to share following information with you. For the application of GPO settings, different client site extensions are responsible and they may have an different affect on the duration of the application of the setting. GPP are a special case, especially that you have the choice of create, replace, update and delete of the setting. You did not mention which of these you used for the mapping. Specially with the drive mapping, when you make them persistently, you do not really need to reapply them, apart if you have a specific reason for that. So play around with the action and see if the changes that application duration for the GPP. Please check the Event log, and find out the related logs then post at this thread. Another nice little setting is the "Verbose vs normal status messages" http://support.microsoft.com/kb/316243/en-us settings which gives you more detailed status messages when the computer starts and the user logs in. Having this enabled makes it easier to understand what's the computer is currently working on. I also suggest you to log on with cached credentials, It can speed up the logon process when it is offline.