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Have you checked for a *.dmp file being on the PC. If it's a BSOD that should tell you pretty accurately where the issue is coming from. Anything in the event log when this happens? You could try doing an SFC /scannow from the command line to see if that fixes anything.

How many computers have this issue? Do any logon with out any problems? You could try a gpupdate /force from the command line see if gives any new errors. You could also try resetting the computer account on the domain. From a server you can type: netdom reset [computername /domain domain.net /UserO [local user account on PC] /PasswordO * If that doesn't work, check the event log on both the local PC and on the server If it still doesn't work after that, I might taking it off the domain and readding it just as a test to see if that has any affect on it.

I had an issue similar to this. It would boot up fine if the network cable was unplugged. I forget the exact reason, but it was checking some network stuff and that is what had caused it to crash. You could also try booting up to the repair console and seeing if there is any dmp files. I'm not sure if by this point it would be just faster to rebuild it or not. Not a lot of options at this point.

Here's a way to test out step 3 with a script. First test to see if this fixes your issue XCACLS desktop.ini /D Administrator:R /Y Manually check the file permission. If that works this should work for automating it for all users. I'm not too sure which desktop.ini file they are talking about so I'm putting an example for one in the file path and one in a UNC path. FOR /F "tokens=1 delims= " %a in ('dir /b "c:\documents and settings"') DO XCACLS "c:\documents and settings\%a\desktop.ini /D Administrator:R /Y" FOR /F "tokens=1 delims= " %a in ('dir /b "\\server\users\"') DO XCACLS "\\server\users\%a\desktop.ini /D Administrator:R /Y" ** One note. If you save this to a batch file, you want to make the % double %% or else it won't work.

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Looks like this is what you're looking for. Not sure it can be done with a GPO Logon Script MapNetworkDrive - VBScript rename

I use the following batch file on my pcs for weekly maintenance. You have to add it to the scheduled tasks on each pc if you have a windows 2k3 DC. If you have win2k8 you can add it to the scheduled tasks gpo. REM The next line clears out old temp folders FOR /F "tokens=1 delims= " %%a in ('dir /b "c:\documents and settings"') DO rmdir /s /q "c:\documents and settings\%%a\local settings\temp" FOR /F "tokens=1 delims= " %%a in ('dir /b "c:\documents and settings"') DO md "c:\documents and settings\%%a\local settings\Temp" FOR /F "tokens=1 delims= " %%a in ('dir /b "c:\documents and settings"') DO del /s /q "C:\Documents and Settings\%%a\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\*.*" del /s /q c:\windows\temp\*.* REM Main tools %SystemRoot%\System32\Defrag.exe %SystemDrive% echo y|chkdsk c: /f /r echo y|gpupdate /force shutdown /r /f /t 0

I would still call RM then and double check if their DNS server's IP addresses have changed. Can you ping your DNS servers on your C&W side?

I've always setup our DNS to point to our dns server internally and from there your dns server has forwarders to the outside. In this case, I think you would still have the issue as it doesn't seem like the DNS server that you had is responding. I would try contacting your internet provider to double check what DNS servers they recommend using,

You might check for any WSUS services if they are still running. I also found something that R2 will look for this service no matter what. Event 421 After Removing WSUS in Windows Server SBS

I'm not sure exactly what you're looking for, but it looks like you have to add .v2 to the folder that has the manditory profile in it to indicate it is a windows 2008 server. You can read more here on this blog. Mandatory User Profiles in Windows 2008 Terminal Server and XenApp 5 Jeremy Waldrop's Blog

The policy for My Computer in the start menu is located at User Configuration \ Administrative Templates \ Start Menu and Taskbar \ Policy:Remove My Computer from the Start Menu You can also do an rsop.msc from the run line to see if it is or is not being applied. Or do a gpresult from the command line to see if perhaps it's being applied from another group policy. Depending if the group policy is set for the PCs or the actual user groups. You might need to enable the Loopback policy which is located Computer Configuration \ Administrative Templates \ System \ Group Policy \ Policy: Loopback Policy : Enable Lastly, try this command from the command line to force the group policy to update. gpupdate /force

Any errors in the event log of the server or workstation that might be a better idea of what the issue is?

You can also use gpresult on the workstation to see what policies are being applied or ignored and compare them on the student vs the teacher profiles.

Could try a gpupdate /force. If that doesn't work, try gpresult