Thanks everyone for the replies. I think this is solved. Not so much UAC as PEBCAK J
I misspoke about the logon script/AD thing. Only drive mappings are done via login script. WSUS and everything else is done by AD. Simon, your suggestion to run the script manually from the netlogon share clued me in. Apparently Win7 doesn't actually show the command prompt window like previous versions of windows do when the logon script runs, so I hadn't seen what was happening. Um, so, this part is where the PEBCAK comes in... This computer has a multi-format flash card reader installed. It took up quite a few drive letters, include I: and G: which are the two mapped drives that weren't mapping. Once I changed the drive letters of the reader, it was fine. As far as WSUS, I guess it just took a little while to kick in, but as of today, it's connecting to the local WSUS server just as it should J Thanks everyone for your replies J Evan From: Simon Butler [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, July 04, 2010 11:36 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Windows 7 not running logon script? UAC being enabled shouldn't stop the login scripts from running. I have never touched UAC on any of the networks I look after and the scripts run fine. However WSUS setup should really be done with group policy, and if you are doing registry entries and things like that, then those can be problematic. Straight drive and printer mappings should work fine. Two things to check. 1. Does the script run manually from the netlogon share. 2. It could be that the workstation is starting too quickly for the network. Check the logon server variable by typing set in a command prompt. If it is the local machine then Windows is logging in using cached credentials rather than live. This is one of those times where I like my dual login script method. In the domain I have login.cmd listed. All this does is call login2.cmd, but it is also dumps a log file in to the user profile. Therefore when it comes to troubleshooting, I can see what happened. http://loginscripts.info/recording.asp Another option would be set yourself with a separate login script and strip it down. See whether there is something in the script that is causing the problem. Simon. -- Simon Butler MVP: Exchange, MCSE Sembee Ltd. e: [email protected] w: http://www.sembee.co.uk/ w: http://www.amset.info/ w: http://blog.sembee.co.uk/ Need cheap certificates for Exchange, compatible with Windows Mobile 5.0? http://CertificatesForExchange.com/ for certificates from just $23.99. Need a domain for your certificate? http://DomainsForExchange.net/ Exchange Resources: http://exbpa.com/ From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 04 July 2010 15:49 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Windows 7 not running logon script? UAC enabled? From: Evan Brastow [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, July 04, 2010 7:40 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Windows 7 not running logon script? After another frustrating experience with Dell, I just purchased a Falcon Northwest Talon system to replace my two year old Dell XPS 730 system that needed a new motherboard that apparently Dell didn't stock and didn't care to. So, this is my first system at work with Windows 7. And I'm having an issue already... my logon script doesn't seem to be running. Drives aren't mapped, WSUS isn't setup, etc... The domain is a Windows Server 2003 domain... the scripts are batch files that are called from the user accounts (in other words, I'm still doing this "the old way" without AD really being involved in the login scripts.) Any thoughts on why Win7 won't run the login script? Thanks, and Happy 4th J Evan ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
