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We have used winPE and imageX to image multiple computers of an identical specification in the past, it works well. But it does drag the network down so dramatically.. Doing that opened up a whole can of worms that I wont go into, but none of those PC's did the issue of what I am originally describing. It's a very strange problem, its 1/30 new PC's setup and always happens within the first week of them being installed. It's a simple fix, just re join them to the domain.. But trying to find out a reason as to why is somewhat difficult, it just seems to be us with the problem?

Thankyou for the responses All the new Dells appear to come with broadcom cards and the trust error has occasionally happened but its not actually that issue.. Yes we do have SP1, its preinstalled and we allow for WSUS to update to SP1 The reason we havn't imaged is due to the variety of hardware we have, we are still evaluating viable imaging solutions. And yes, we only use Dell systems In every instance, the event viewer has had literally nothing. I suspect it would be system restore, but there is nothing in the eventviewer at all about this.. We also have a GPO that disables system restore, but this was initially inteded for XP.. Pupil accounts do not have access to the context menu's but the teacher accounts do.. I can see how this is possible if a pupil has gained access to a teacher account. But they wouldn't just do it to one computer would they? they would do it to every PC they could log into.. This one seems to have got us all stumped as it is happening so randomly, always one pc at a time, they never fall over in waves..

Hey guys, first post and all.. Ok it's happening in plenty of schools and its been happening since we started the rollout of windows 7, we havnt yet found a resolution for this... We setup a new IT suite, Windows 7 and Server 2003/2008.. A week later we'll get a call saying that the users cannot log in.. So, off we go and come across a PC just sat there with our username as the only user account on the Pc and it looks like it was never joined to the domain.. All of the software that the server had pushed out is still there, the AV software is still there... The computer account is still in AD, yet the computer is not on the domain.. We have static IPs, No DHCP leases from the servers Computers are OEM Dell windows 7 pro (Never imaged) Has anyone else seen anything like this? Ive tried searching all over the net but nothing at all on this happening anywhere