I'm having a problem with laptops when they leave our main network. When they're on campus, they can connect to the domain controllers for authentication and group policy application.When users take the comptuers home, they're outside the campus firewall and can while they can still find the domain controllers in DNS, they are unable to communicate with them effectively and take 8-12 minutes to log on. The event viewer has errors like:Error ID 1053 - Windows cannot determine the user or computer name. (The RPC Server is unavailable.) Group Policy processing aborted.I found this article (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/839880) that suggests adding a registry key to reduce the timeout window, but it seems like a hack. I'm hoping for some Network Location Awareness magic, but I don't think I'll get it.Is there some way to prevent the laptop from trying to process policy while it's "outside" the fence? "Slow link detection" doesn't seem to work because the DC responds to pings quickly. Upgrading to Vista/7 isn't an option at this point. While we have a VPN system, it doesn't support pre-logon connections. (As far as I know, anyway.)1 person needs an answerI do too