This is a very strange issue, which I think will only affect a handful of people, and only those who have the right mix of configurations as described below. Users logging on to a Windows 7 machine received the following popup: This message implied that there would be some informative details in the Event Log,
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Tag: User Profiles
Redirected My Documents folders showing as ‘Documents’ rather than the users name
Had a complaint from a member of staff recently that all students work folders showed up as My Documents when he was browsing through their work. Many of you may have been directed to this Microsoft KB as a ‘solution’. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/947222 Not much of a solution if you ask me. Redirection to a subfolder would
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SharePoint Search – Access Denied
Having a bit of a SharePoint day. Had recently noticed that no People were being returned in search results, even if you type in their name exactly. Went through the check list of possible causes: Default Content Access account permissions to the User Profile Service (Read Profiles for Search Crawler) Full Read permissions on the
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Login Script Not Running Windows 2008 Remote Desktop Services (Terminal Services)
Call today: User has not got any network drives when logging on to the thin clients. The setup for this is as follows: 2 x Windows Server 2008 R2 servers running RDS, DNS round robin, load balanced. 56 x ThinStation 2.2.2 clients A VBS login script is applied using Group Policy. All student users have
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Office 2007 – Quick Access Toolbar not saved in Roaming Profile
Just had a request from a user, who was complaining that everytime that she logs into a computer, she has to customise the Quick Access Toolbar in Word and Excel. (The few buttons to the rights of the Office Button.) Turns out that the QAT is not stored in the roaming part of the user
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802.1x User Authentication with Mandatory Profiles
Just been working on 60 new Asus Eee netbooks that we have bought for student use in the college. Mainly, testing thoroughly that the wireless was going to work flawlessly. We got everything working for ourselves using Network Policy Server, HP Procurve 420 AP’s and PEAP. Only problem – when a student logs in, the
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Group Policy Client Service Failed the Login: Access is Denied
This error has been annoying me for nearly 4 hours now. We have a terminal server for students. All students use a mandatory profile, located on a share so that it can be accessed by all of the servers in the farm. I thought this would be easy to set up, so I did the
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