Anyone know if a GPO has size limitations?

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Headhunter
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Anyone know if a GPO has size limitations?

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we're looking to pre-populate restricted and Trusted sites in IE (save your Firefox crap) via GPO's. We're basing some of this on our Content filtering exceptions. There is a very good possibility that we will be populating upwards of 500 sites. Does anyone know if GPO's have a size limitation?

I'm not concerned with load times (YET), just whether or not there is a system limitation. I haven't been able to find anything on MS's site.
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I couldn't find anything either, and it strikes me that they don't (since MS would want to offer "gnat's ass" detail in group policies. However, if you throw trusted sites in there, it will activate the users spyware everytime it over-writes the trusted list.

An annoyance, but worth noting.
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TheArtist wrote:it will activate the users spyware everytime it over-writes the trusted list.

An annoyance, but worth noting.
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Have you got any documentation around that? Our GPO's get applied at every log on. That might be a show stopper!

I think due to log on times associated with a GPO that size, we're moving in another direction, but that might be a data point worth mentioning.
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No documentation, but field experience.

We installed MS Anti-spy on one of our managed sites that has GPO's that move the "home page" every log. MSAS askes everytime if its approved.

So, I imagine that other changes that are "spyware like"; such as adding to the trusted site list, will invoke similar responses.

Just a guess.
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