John – see point #5. I’m wondering if this is somehow updated/changed in 2008 to account for Vista, but the policy setting “Always wait for the network at computer startup and logon” in 2003 does not natively apply to Vista (as was alluded to in this thread yesterday…)
http://www.itechtalk.com/thread1978.html I’m wondering if there is an Administrative Template for Vista that could be loaded into 2003 that would address this. I don’t have a test environment that I can load the admx files into right now… http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=05d0598b-95f9-4bdd-af36-b365d68ec5f6&DisplayLang=en I’m sure you’ve already seen this, but in case it is helpful to anyone else: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc758898(WS.10).aspx Note the “grey note” section about software installation toward the bottom of that section: “The Software Installation and Folder Redirection extensions process policy only during the initial run because it is risky to process policy in the background. For example, with Software Installation application upgrades, applications are installed during the initial run and not in the background. If it were done in the background, a user could be running an application, and then have it uninstalled and a new version installed. The application could also have a shared component that is in use by another application. This would prevent the installation from completing successfully.” Someone else has run into the same situation with win7, it seems. Just for kicks, have you tried turning off UAC on one of your clients as a test? http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7itproinstall/thread/bcf38d47-c4b6-4355-a79f-1f256bbed933 HTH... Have a good weekend. Jonathan L. Raper, A+, MCSA, MCSE Technology Coordinator Eagle Physicians & Associates, PA jra...@eaglemds.com www.eaglemds.com ________________________________________ From: John Hornbuckle [mailto:john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us] Sent: Friday, October 15, 2010 3:07 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Group Policy Problems Over Wireless Today, one of my technicians disabled the wired interfaces on a few machines. It’ll take a little testing to see if this fixes things. But I’ve had some other thoughts about this, relating to the wireless network—so I’m trying a couple of other tricks. I’ll definitely post an update to the list as soon as I come up with something. From: Raper, Jonathan - Eagle [mailto:jra...@eaglemds.com] Sent: Friday, October 15, 2010 3:04 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Group Policy Problems Over Wireless Hey John – any luck? Jonathan L. Raper, A+, MCSA, MCSE Technology Coordinator Eagle Physicians & Associates, PA jra...@eaglemds.com www.eaglemds.com ________________________________________ From: John Hornbuckle [mailto:john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us] Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2010 2:02 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Group Policy Problems Over Wireless It’s hard to keep up with the information flow. Heck, I missed Carl’s suggestion that I disable the wired interfaces. Thank goodness he repeated himself. Well, unless that doesn’t work. :) From: Raper, Jonathan - Eagle [mailto:jra...@eaglemds.com] Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2010 12:25 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Group Policy Problems Over Wireless Yeah, I obviously missed that too. So much for trying to be helpful. Is it Friday yet? Jonathan L. Raper, A+, MCSA, MCSE Technology Coordinator Eagle Physicians & Associates, PA jra...@eaglemds.com www.eaglemds.com ________________________________________ From: Webster [mailto:carlwebs...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2010 12:18 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Group Policy Problems Over Wireless From John’s response on Wednesday the 13th: There’s “Always wait for the network at computer startup and logon,” but I’ve already got that enabled. Webster From: Raper, Jonathan - Eagle [mailto:jra...@eaglemds.com] Subject: RE: Group Policy Problems Over Wireless Ok, my mistake – thanks for the clarification. If you’re getting all of your policies, but not getting software install, then this policy setting will hopefully be your friend: Computer Configuration → Administrative Templates → System → Logon → Always wait for the network at computer startup and logon Straight from the explanation of the GPO setting: “Note: If you want to guarantee the application of Folder Redirection, Software Installation, or roaming user profile settings in just one logon, enable this setting to ensure that Windows waits for the network to be available before applying policy.” Note: this GPO setting does not exist prior to AD2003. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ________________________________________ Any medical information contained in this electronic message is CONFIDENTIAL and privileged. 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