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Welcome MrHoff, i'm a bit new around here myself hehe The Copy to is a right pain but the way we got round it here was to manually copy the profile to our share. Then rename the folder to whatever you want it and put .V2 on the end so studentman.V2 for the folder name. Deleted Appdata\Local and Appdata\Locallow from the profile folder. Launch Regedit on the fileserver where we stored the profile. Select hkey_users and then load the hive from ntuser.dat in your profile folder. change the permissions on the hive so you delete the old user and add everyone full control. unload the hive from regedit. then rename ntuser.dat to .man. Make sure when you point to your profile in AD you don't add the \studentman.V2 as it dosen't need the .v2 in the name as AD uses the v2 to tell the difference between win7 profile/xp etc. just point it to studentman for example. I'm pulling this from memory but if it dosen't work let me know and i'll double check it for you. Ontopic. After Iceskaiting uphill for a few day's all workstations/laptops are deployed with win7 here, servers have been virtualised and all dc's are now 2008r2. Just waiting for the start of term now and tidying up some cabeling etc.

Can you try fitting another physical nic to the host machine and then allocate this physical nic to the VM? Running out of idea's for you atm Also can you ping the host from the VM and vice versa?

Hi Nick, I'm starting to think the same idea as theblacksheep in that it might be a corrupt gpo. Don't think ipsec is causing it anymore, just wated to test the safe mode idea cause if IPSec has issues it can enter block mode causing the issues your seeing however the service shouldn't start in safemode and as you still have the same problem i don't think it could be that (wouldn't rule out anything yet though). I would be tempted to run a dcgpofix however i hate suggesting it as it's one of those "last resort" options that can bite hard if it goes pear shaped. I'll have a word with a few mates and bounce some idea's but let us know if you resolve it in the meantime.

My first post here but just wanted to share a couple idea's, can you talk to it in safe mode? can you see the ping packets being recived on the server but it's just not replying? Any error logs in event viewer regarding IPSec?