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Disable Cached Exchange Mode on new profiles - Enabled
Check to disable Cached Exchange Mode on new profiles - Enabled
This whole time I had already eliminated GPO as a possible cause, but upon further testing found that my user account was not applying the domain policies. For some reason when I login to any pc/server using my account event viewer post an error stating that the system was unable to apply the domain policies to my account. Thus, when I used my account, everything worked fine (becuase I did not have any policies applied to me), however when I used any other account the policies were applied and configred to disable this feature.
I changed the two settings above in GPO, forced and update, rebooted and now I'm able to select cached mode under any user account.
Thanks all for the help... so who gets the points?