I had some problems with Folder Redirection policies and Fast Logon Optimization - I turned that off via GPO.
On 13 October 2010 15:57, Raper, Jonathan - Eagle <[email protected]>wrote: > 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]* > *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]> 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]] > *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]> 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. 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