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That would make sense. Thank you. I'll let you know how it goes.

Thanks, as we followed exactly those steps at least we appear to have done that bit right! Unfortunately, there is just this hangover were on logon the client (even a completely new one that never had ranger on) that wants to look for the old Ranger fault.

Yes we are, although we are moving to mandatory for the pupils as soon as poss. Can I just thank everyone for the help. We have solved the problem of the GPOs not applying, somebody hadn't moved the clients into the correct OU We still need to work on the issue of it looking for the Ranger desktop, temporarily we have put the folder back. So we have a functioning, secure network. Rocknrollstar, thanks I will pass on your message to my colleagues. Have a nice weekend all.

Bless you, but these machines has been rebuilt from scratch, with a new hard drive, profiles deleted as well. Thanks for the suggestions

Thanks, I appreciate your time. The problem seems to be that although GPO have been applied, they are not taking hold on machines. And there seems to be something somewhere that wants to look at the old Ranger folder.

I know this thread is a bit old now, but here goes....... We are moving from Ranger to a Vanilla set up on a 2003 server. We have removed Ranger from the clients and from the server, set up the group policies. When we try to login we get an error message .... server\ranger\profiles\.....\desktop is not accessible We click on ok and can still access the users work, but naturally the desktop is not set up and the programs list is empty. We have looked around and cannot find where the instruction to look for the ranger desktop is coming from. Now this is on a machine that has never had Ranger on before. If we put the ranger folder back on the server, the error disappears, but this isn't really the aim. Can anyone (kindly) suggest where we are going wrong? Many thanks