Re: Group Policy Problems Over Wireless

2010-10-15 Thread Jon Harris
*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

RE: Group Policy Problems Over Wireless

2010-10-15 Thread Raper, Jonathan - Eagle
r 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? Jo

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2010-10-15 Thread John Hornbuckle
ost 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 Te

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2010-10-15 Thread Raper, Jonathan - Eagle
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 himsel

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2010-10-15 Thread Maglinger, Paul
It's here! It's here! From: Jon Harris [mailto:jk.har...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2010 5:58 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Group Policy Problems Over Wireless Nope one more day, sorry. Jon On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 12:25 PM, Raper, Jonathan - Eag

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2010-10-14 Thread Jon Harris
, 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

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2010-10-14 Thread Glen Johnson
Phil Brutsche [mailto:p...@optimumdata.com] Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2010 2:49 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Group Policy Problems Over Wireless Portfast is a spanning tree feature; it refers to how quickly a switch port will move from the learning state to the forwarding

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2010-10-14 Thread Raper, Jonathan - Eagle
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 inte

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2010-10-14 Thread Raper, Jonathan - Eagle
: Re: Group Policy Problems Over Wireless Portfast is a spanning tree feature; it refers to how quickly a switch port will move from the learning state to the forwarding state. Portfast enabled -> plug the cable in, the port is immediately in the forwarding state, but you run the risk o

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2010-10-14 Thread Phil Brutsche
Portfast is a spanning tree feature; it refers to how quickly a switch port will move from the learning state to the forwarding state. Portfast enabled -> plug the cable in, the port is immediately in the forwarding state, but you run the risk of brief ethernet loops. Portfast disabled -> plug th

RE: Group Policy Problems Over Wireless

2010-10-14 Thread Glen Johnson
From: John Hornbuckle [mailto:john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us] Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2010 2:07 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Group Policy Problems Over Wireless According to the documentation for that setting, not configuring it at all causes the default setting of 30 seconds to

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2010-10-14 Thread Phil Brutsche
That's what the documentation says, but the documentation ran contrary to my experience. On 10/14/2010 1:06 PM, John Hornbuckle wrote: > According to the documentation for that setting, not configuring it > at all causes the default setting of 30 seconds to use. So if you > enable the setting and

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2010-10-14 Thread John Hornbuckle
tsche [mailto:p...@optimumdata.com] Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2010 1:07 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Group Policy Problems Over Wireless I've had a similar problem with some of our Windows 7 machines - the machine comes up faster than the network connection, and software installatio

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2010-10-14 Thread John Hornbuckle
010 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...@eaglem

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2010-10-14 Thread Raper, Jonathan - Eagle
-Original Message- From: Phil Brutsche [mailto:p...@optimumdata.com] Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2010 1:07 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Group Policy Problems Over Wireless I've had a similar problem with some of our Windows 7 machines - the machine comes up faster than the netw

Re: Group Policy Problems Over Wireless

2010-10-14 Thread Phil Brutsche
I've had a similar problem with some of our Windows 7 machines - the machine comes up faster than the network connection, and software installation policies weren't taking affect due to the missing network connectivity. The machine in question is a desktop connected via gigabit, but the symptoms ar

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2010-10-14 Thread Raper, Jonathan - Eagle
mds.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 s

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2010-10-14 Thread John Hornbuckle
om: John Hornbuckle [mailto:john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us] Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2010 11:21 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Group Policy Problems Over Wireless Yeah, I just don't know what to do about it. The NICs are Broadcom, built into the machines (these are iMacs running Vista

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2010-10-14 Thread John Hornbuckle
Oh, wow... I missed that, Carl! Let me give that a shot. From: Carl Houseman [mailto:c.house...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2010 11:34 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Group Policy Problems Over Wireless Did you disable the wired adapter as I previously suggested? If

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2010-10-14 Thread Carl Houseman
hn.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us] Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2010 11:21 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Group Policy Problems Over Wireless Yeah, I just don't know what to do about it. The NICs are Broadcom, built into the machines (these are iMacs running Vista via Boot Camp)

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2010-10-14 Thread John Hornbuckle
doing Active Directory stuff? From: Raper, Jonathan - Eagle [mailto:jra...@eaglemds.com] Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2010 10:50 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Group Policy Problems Over Wireless Well, to be fair, it is really a wireless AND an OS issue. The OS is loading too quickly fo

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2010-10-14 Thread Raper, Jonathan - Eagle
mmailto:%20jra...@eaglemds.com> www.eaglemds.comhttp://www.eaglemds.com/> From: John Hornbuckle [mailto:john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us] Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2010 10:44 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Group Policy Problems Over Wireless I should've

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2010-10-14 Thread John Hornbuckle
l.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2010 2:37 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Group Policy Problems Over Wireless Yeah, but you won't say how much money until you get the results, will you? :) If wireless is working well enough to use the computer and do other domain kinds of

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2010-10-13 Thread Carl Houseman
ot;) starts prior to login. Carl From: Mike Gill [mailto:lis...@canbyfoursquare.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2010 7:19 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Group Policy Problems Over Wireless I was of the understanding that you have to use 802.1x machine based authentica

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2010-10-13 Thread Mike Gill
RSAT to connect to my Win2K3 DC. -- Mike Gill From: John Hornbuckle [mailto:john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us] Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2010 11:24 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Group Policy Problems Over Wireless I'm 99.9% sure this is a wireless issue, but will get

Re: Group Policy Problems Over Wireless

2010-10-13 Thread Andrew S. Baker
> > > Carl > > > > *From:* John Hornbuckle [mailto:john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us] > *Sent:* Wednesday, October 13, 2010 1:47 PM > > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* RE: Group Policy Problems Over Wireless > > > > Yeah, I’ve done the force. Half a dozen

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2010-10-13 Thread Carl Houseman
x27;s? Carl From: John Hornbuckle [mailto:john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us] Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2010 2:24 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Group Policy Problems Over Wireless I'm 99.9% sure this is a wireless issue, but will get that additional .01% assurance shortly.

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2010-10-13 Thread John Hornbuckle
D'oh! From: Webster [mailto:carlwebs...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2010 2:34 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Group Policy Problems Over Wireless Then you will be 99.91% sure! Webster From: John Hornbuckle [mailto:john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us] Subject: RE:

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2010-10-13 Thread Webster
Then you will be 99.91% sure! Webster From: John Hornbuckle [mailto:john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us] Subject: RE: Group Policy Problems Over Wireless I'm 99.9% sure this is a wireless issue, but will get that additional .01% assurance shortly. I have a technician plugging o

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2010-10-13 Thread John Hornbuckle
13, 2010 2:20 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Group Policy Problems Over Wireless All things considered, you appear to have a group policy problem unrelated to the wireless, something easily proven by taking a problem machine and connecting it wired. The info you've posted about

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2010-10-13 Thread Carl Houseman
e event ID description text may also be useful. Good luck. Carl From: John Hornbuckle [mailto:john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us] Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2010 1:47 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Group Policy Problems Over Wireless Yeah, I've done the force. Half a dozen

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2010-10-13 Thread John Hornbuckle
ensibly because clearly there's something different between the one that worked and the ones that didn't, but I have no clue what. From: Carl Houseman [mailto:c.house...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2010 1:02 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Group Policy Problems Over

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2010-10-13 Thread Carl Houseman
gpupdate /force Also eventid.net is your friend. Carl From: John Hornbuckle [mailto:john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us] Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2010 12:38 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Group Policy Problems Over Wireless Gpresult /v shows something odd. Below is an

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2010-10-13 Thread John Hornbuckle
nticated Users This Organization TCHS-115-S02$ FCS Computers TCHS Admin Policy Computers Domain Computers System Mandatory Level From: Carl Houseman [mailto:c.house...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2010 11:50 AM To: NT System Admin Issues

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2010-10-13 Thread John Hornbuckle
The wireless NICs are Broadcom, though, in this case. From: Raper, Jonathan - Eagle [mailto:jra...@eaglemds.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2010 11:02 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Group Policy Problems Over Wireless Good point, but I've experienced the same symptoms

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2010-10-13 Thread John Hornbuckle
ocessing across a slow network connection" option. We'll see what happens. From: Webster [mailto:carlwebs...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2010 10:55 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Group Policy Problems Over Wireless Software Installation will not happen over wh

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2010-10-13 Thread John Hornbuckle
is why the machines don't show the proper group membership. At the very least, I'd have thought that would've worked. From: Raper, Jonathan - Eagle [mailto:jra...@eaglemds.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2010 10:57 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Group Policy P

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2010-10-13 Thread Carl Houseman
What are you using for a wireless supplicant (program that configures the SSID etc.)? Windows WZC or something specific to the wireless? Whichever one you are using, turn it off and try the other. Also download and install the latest wireless NIC drivers. All else being OK, generally the

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2010-10-13 Thread John Hornbuckle
Just tried-no difference. From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2010 10:49 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Group Policy Problems Over Wireless Yes, that is truebut if the network isn't fully operational and the user logs in, sof

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2010-10-13 Thread Webster
I never taught a 2003 AD class but that issue is covered in the 2008/R2 AD class in the GPO Modules. Webster From: Raper, Jonathan - Eagle [mailto:jra...@eaglemds.com] Subject: RE: Group Policy Problems Over Wireless Good point, but I've experienced the same symptoms

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2010-10-13 Thread Raper, Jonathan - Eagle
_ From: Webster [mailto:carlwebs...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2010 10:55 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Group Policy Problems Over Wireless Software Installation will not happen over what GP determines is a Slow Link on 2008 and R2. So turn off Slow

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2010-10-13 Thread James Rankin
...@taylor.k12.fl.us] > *Sent:* Wednesday, October 13, 2010 10:46 AM > > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* RE: Group Policy Problems Over Wireless > > > > The policy for installing the software is a computer policy, not a user > policy—so it should be happening be

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2010-10-13 Thread Raper, Jonathan - Eagle
.comhttp://www.eaglemds.com/> From: John Hornbuckle [mailto:john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us] Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2010 10:46 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Group Policy Problems Over Wireless The policy for installing the software is a computer policy, not a user po

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2010-10-13 Thread Webster
Software Installation will not happen over what GP determines is a Slow Link on 2008 and R2. So turn off Slow Link detection and see if that helps. Webster From: John Hornbuckle [mailto:john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us] Subject: Group Policy Problems Over Wireless Short version: I

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2010-10-13 Thread James Rankin
t for the network at computer startup and logon,” but > I’ve already got that enabled. > > > > > > > > > > John > > > > > > > > > > *From:* James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] > *Sent:* Wednesday, October 13, 2010 10:37 AM >

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2010-10-13 Thread John Hornbuckle
to have given up on processing computer policies at that point. From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2010 10:43 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Group Policy Problems Over Wireless Does logging in twice initiate the software install, or not? On

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2010-10-13 Thread James Rankin
gt; > > > > > > *From:* James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] > *Sent:* Wednesday, October 13, 2010 10:37 AM > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* Re: Group Policy Problems Over Wireless > > > > isn't there a "wait for the network to i

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2010-10-13 Thread John Hornbuckle
There's "Always wait for the network at computer startup and logon," but I've already got that enabled. John From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2010 10:37 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Group Policy Problems

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2010-10-13 Thread James Rankin
Think it is something like this *Always wait for the network at computer startup and logon* *Administrative Template:* System *Policy Node:* MACHINE *Policy Path:* Administrative Templates\System\Logon On 13 October 2010 15:37, James Rankin wrote: > isn't there a "wait for the network to i

Re: Group Policy Problems Over Wireless

2010-10-13 Thread James Rankin
isn't there a "wait for the network to initialize" GPO setting that you can put down so that it won't try to install software until the network is fully operational? I can't get into GPMC at the moment to confirm - keeps crashing cos of the Wyse Device Manager snap-in. Grrr On 13 October 2010 15: