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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

I uninstalled WSUS from my SBS 2003 and wanted to know if it's alright to remove the C:\Program Files\Update Services directory. I did some searching on Google and couldn't find anything related to uninstalling WSUS and being able to remove that directory but it looks like that directory is related to WSUS. Thanks!

One of the strangest permission issues I found was cached credentials. Under User Accounts in the Control Panel. Go to Advanced tab. Click Manage Passwords. See if anything was listed there. Not sure if that would apply to your case, as mine was more it let you connect some of the time. Also might try manipulating the drives by checking net use. Delete it and try to reconnect. Last check the security log on both the PC and the server.

If I'm understanding your question right. The setting you want is in System Properties > Advanced tab > Performance section click Settings. If you set it to not Use drop shadows for icon labels on the desktop, it will show a black background for the text of your icons so they can read it just fine. As far as applying it to all the pcs. This is the best I could find. adjust for best performance, via GP? - Petri.co.il forums by Daniel Petri

If all those folders are in 1 parent folder. I'm pretty sure you can choose the parent folder and uncheck it there. It will then ask if you want to copy the current permissions or remove all for all folders under it.

The last bit of advice I can give is we had issues with LDAP authenication due to the account ldap needed to authenticate. We used administrator. Now that account needs to be in the root Users OU. Not sure if ZoneDirector has an account for that.

I can't speak from experience with ZoneDirector. But with working with other devices you also have to configure the Common Name so it'll know what to look for in your orginizational unit. cn=Users,dc=school_name,dc=school_county,dc=sch,dc=uk ou=Users,dc=school_name,dc=school_county,dc=sch,dc=uk Hope that at least leads you in the right direction.

I had the exact same thing happen on one of my servers with the exact same printer. I had to remove the print driver from the server and install the universal print driver. HP LaserJet P2030 Printer series- HP Universal Print Driver for Windows PCL5 - HP Business Support Center First time I've done it that way, but it worked great. Spooler stopped crashing and everyone was happy.

Does anyone have any experience with any kind of Index.dat analyzers. I use the following which does the trick, but it could be organized better. Index.dat Analyzer - Free software downloads and software reviews - CNET Download.com If you have any better way of checking people's internet history that is builtin/free let me know as well

I would also check to make sure DHCP doesn't distribute it as a secondary dns, or gateway, etc. I had this issue as well and a few of our multi function scanners were scanning to the IP of server that we needed to remove. Didn't find that one till after the change.

Doesn't look like shutdownertron can force a shutdown http://www.edugeek.net/forums/edugeek-shutdownertron/24560-shutdownertron-v1-2-a.html#post247080 the /f that EduTech is talking about is for the shutdown command from windows.