GP Preferences not working for you? Probably F5-F6-F7-F8

I noticed that some of my policy’s where not applying via the Internet Explorer GPO Preferences,

And after much digging around on the internet I found out why.

If you notice below each setting has a red dotted line and a green line, the ones with the green lines are enabled and the ones with the red dotted lines are not enabled or ignored.

User Configuration

   └ Preferences

      └ Control Panel Settings

         └ Internet Settings

To simply enable and disable, click on the section you are about to change and press F6, this will configure/enable just this setting-The red dotted line should turn green.

The other options are as follows;

F5 Configure all of these settings

F6 Configure just this setting

F7 Ignore just this setting

F8 Ignore all these settings

The same goes for settings and advanced settings – Green to apply the setting, Red to ignore the Setting

The same goes for your LAN settings, un-tick automatically detect settings and enable with F6 this will make sure the policy is applied, if you disable/ignore (F7) the setting the policy with not check with the local machine policy’s.

Enter the URL of the Home page you wish to set, and select start with home page. Notice the red dots underlining the home page entry.