There is one possibility - I've run into this before, but not had a chance to test my theory. Fast Sign-on in Windows XP. If it is disabled (which is not default) then that might solve the issue. Of course, that will increase your logon times, and that policy is a machine policy, so you'd have to connect the machines wired, boot them up...and that would apply the GPO you're trying to apply in the first place...
*eyeroll* Have you tried a gpupdate /force once the client is booted, and if so, does that work? I've had success with that... If that works, you could script that to run once the user logs in, which would force them to reboot for the policies to take affect... Jonathan L. Raper, A+, MCSA, MCSE Technology Coordinator Eagle Physicians & Associates, PA [email protected]<BLOCKED::mailto:%[email protected]> www.eaglemds.com<BLOCKED::http://www.eaglemds.com/> ________________________________ From: John Hornbuckle [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2010 10:46 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Group Policy Problems Over Wireless The policy for installing the software is a computer policy, not a user policy-so it should be happening before login ever occurs. The user policies and scripts work just fine, all the time. Because it seems that once you get to the login screen, things are up and running-but the system seems to have given up on processing computer policies at that point. From: James Rankin [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2010 10:43 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Group Policy Problems Over Wireless Does logging in twice initiate the software install, or not? On 13 October 2010 15:39, John Hornbuckle <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: There's "Always wait for the network at computer startup and logon," but I've already got that enabled. John From: James Rankin [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2010 10:37 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Group Policy Problems Over Wireless isn't there a "wait for the network to initialize" GPO setting that you can put down so that it won't try to install software until the network is fully operational? I can't get into GPMC at the moment to confirm - keeps crashing cos of the Wyse Device Manager snap-in. Grrr On 13 October 2010 15:25, John Hornbuckle <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Short version: Is there a trick to improving group policy processing when accessing the network wirelessly? Long version: We have a lab with machines that have Broadcom wireless NICs in them. Vista OS, connecting to Server 2008 R2 DC. I'm trying to deploy a piece of software to these machines via Group Policy. I have things setup so that if the machine is a member of a certain group, the software is deployed. Unfortunately, it only worked correctly on one of the machines-on all the rest, the software isn't being deployed. So I connect to any of the machines that didn't get the software, and run gpresult. It doesn't show me that those machines are members of the group that gets the software. But I know they are; I've confirmed in ADUC on the DC. They're just not picking up group membership. Looking at the event log for events that happen around startup, I see things that make me think group policy processing is trying to happen prior to the wireless network being initialized. Things like: Event ID 5719 (There are currently no logon servers available to service the logon request.) Event ID 129 (NtpClient was unable to set a domain peer to use as a time source because of discovery error.) Event ID 1129 (The processing of Group Policy failed because of lack of network connectivity to a domain controller.) Connectivity to the DC is fine once you get the [Ctrl] + [Alt] + [Del] window. You can log in (including as someone who has never logged into the machine before), ping the DC, browse to \\domain\syvol, and so on. It's just that at that point, group policy processing seems to have given up. My machines aren't figuring out that they've been added to a new group. 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