You may have spent a lot of time searching group policy for this option in Windows 2000 or 2003. You may have even gone as far as downloading the Microsoft Outlook ADM file for office 2000 XP or 2003 to try and find this option to add to group policy. If you haven’t tried these things then let me save you some time. It ain’t there! You need another way to sort this which is what I describe here.
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What is the loopback policy? How does the loopback policy work?

Group Policies are normally applied to the user or their PC depending on where they are located in Active Directory. There are occasions (Terminal Servers / Citrix servers are a prime example) when you wish users to have certain policies applied depending on which computer (Server) they log on to. This is where the loopback policy comes into its own.

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How does Group Policy inheritance work? This is a question I am asked alot. It can be a complicated issue for a beginner or even for an experienced administrator if there are lots of policies involved. It’s also something that WILL crop up many times in the MCSE exams with various different scenarios and outcomes. There are pages and pages on the internet describing how the group policy inheritance works. Here I try and condense it as simply as possible to make an easy reference guide.
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