We find many instances where even with Group Policy Set to auto restart the services that they still hang. In addition group policy works when
1.) You have a very logical structure, not as good for one offs
2.) You want it to be the authoritative location for settings/standards.
For us Logicmonitor is the Authoritative place to define services we care about monitoring. It is Authoritative from a combination of Active Discovery and manual adjustments. Because it is authoritative it is also my defacto standard. To then have to create the standard in a document outside LogicMonitor and keep the standard up to date is something we will fail at. Every time we bring on a new customer we need to monitor LogicMonitor and then modify the group policy. Anytime that customer deviates from the standard I need to tweak LogicMonitor and my group policy. Simply put lots more work when you manage 80 some odd customers that are the same yet different and those differences are already being captured in the monitoring tool.
