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So now what I want to do is kind of illustrate what this foreground background sink async process is

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all about.

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What you see here is I'm logging into my workstation and it's set in asynchronous mode.

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And so essentially I'm processing group policy in the background as I'm logging in and everything is

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hunky dory.

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Now what I want to do is fire up the editor on the local GPO on this machine, and I'm going to go ahead

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and set that policy that enables the always synchronous policy processing cycle.

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And I want you to notice the difference in essentially how long it takes for me to log in.

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So I'm going to go ahead and enable this policy and always wait for the network.

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Get computer startup and user log on.

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There we go.

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And now that's enabled.

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Now what I'm going to do is I'm going to go ahead and log off of this workstation and I'm going to log

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back on to it.

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Let's go ahead and get back in.

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And I want you to notice the difference in the log on time as I go ahead and log back on.

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And you see here, now that you saw it was applying registry policy, you saw that message showing up.

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And essentially what it was doing is processing policy before it let me see the desktop.

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It was a subtle and not very obvious difference.

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But essentially what was happening there is policy processing for the user.

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My user account, the administrator account was completing before it.

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Let me see the desktop.

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And it was a slightly longer log on time.

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And if you had dug into the logs on group policy processing, which I'm going to talk about in a future

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module, you would have seen that the same group policies were applying.

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But they were applying at different times.

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One was applying while I was getting the desktop presented to me and the other was applying before I

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got the desktop applied to me.

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So this is kind of a fundamental difference in synchronous versus asynchronous, and I typically recommend

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to folks not to turn on the always on synchronous processing because it can slow up your desktop experience.

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You only saw one GPL applying to my user account or my computer account, but in larger environments

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where you might have five, ten, 15, 20 GPOs applying to a particular user or computer, then this

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delay in getting to your log on screen or getting to your desktop can be significant.