
After a reboot though IE's home page was still the default, rather than our Intranet. It told me group policy had updated successfully. Then I tried a gpupdate /force on one of the computers in that OU. I have the computers I would like to test on in an OU and I linked the GPO I created to that OU. With new settings for IE 5, 6, 7, and 8 for the home page. User configuration->preference->control panel settings->internet settings I set the variable "disable changing home page settings" to Enabled and entered the URL of my intranet. User configuration->policies->administrative templates->windows components->internet explorer I created a group policy object with this setting: The computers we are testing on are Windows 8.1, fully patched, with IE 11. We have a pair of Win 2k8 r2 servers functioning as our domain controllers. At present we want to test our group policy on just a small group of computers. We want to drive traffic to it by forcing everyone's IE home page to it.

We will be rolling out a company intranet shortly.
