Network Location Awareness
Network Location Awareness (NLA) is a service built in to Windows that is used to determine when the computer has connectivity to the Active Directory infrastructure. The Group Policy infrastructure uses NLA to determine whether to attempt to download and apply GPOs. This Group Policy functionality is also used with a connectivity check known as slow-link detection.
In earlier versions, Group Policy processing used slow-link detection to determine whether the network was reliable enough to process and apply policies. Slow-link detection relied on the Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) or ping to test for network connectivity and was not very reliable. Because of this specification, group policy processing on mobile ...
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