Complete guess, but I would think that user GPOs only apply to interactive or 
terminal services logons, not service logons. I could well be utterly wrong 
though.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Miller Bonnie L. <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 13:41:05 
To: NT System Admin Issues<[email protected]>
Reply-To: "NT System Admin Issues" 
<[email protected]>Subject: GPOs applying to a service 
account

Does anyone know the outcome of the following?

Domain-member workstation (W7 SP1 or Wxp SP3).
Domain-member user account.
User account is configured to logon as a service on the workstation (set up as 
a service account).

When the workstation is started up, do user-based GPO settings apply to the 
service account when it "logs on"?


We have a very specific need to set the proxy configuration for a service 
account, but not for the computer as a whole (when no user is logged on), so we 
can't use proxycfg/netsh.  Trying to set this using GPO "User 
Config\Policies\Windows Settings\Internet Explorer Maintenance" section, like 
we do for our other user accounts.  If we log on interactively with the 
account, the settings show up.  If you let the account log on as a service and 
view the settings remotely via regedit, they are not being set.

Is this the way it is supposed to work?  I can't seem to find a good reference 
for this scenario.  Would GPPs maybe work better?

Thanks,
Bonnie

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