All,
Strange situation...
We have a public lab at the university where I work where most of the students access the internet and LAN applications, etc... In order to make sure that everything is correct for the students when they logon -- untill a couple of weeks ago we were on a 10MB backbone, so roaming profiles were out of the question -- we have a carefully configured default user profile and an all users profile which contains all the appropriate shortcuts for both the desktop and the start menu. We also run delprof each night to help make sure that the hard-drives don't get flooded with profiles.
Here's our problem:
When a student first logs onto a PC, everything is perfect. Oftentimes, though, if the student logs back off and then on again, things go awry. The desktop shortcuts (but not the builtin executable icons like Outlook and IE) appear at first but then vanish. The start menu no longer contains any folders or shortcuts but instead just says, "(empty)."
After a few more cycles of logging back off and on again, everything is returned to normal.
Any ideas? I can't find any policies on the student GPO which should be affecting the desktop or the start menus -- and certainly nothing that would make a problem like this only occur on a second subsequent login like that.
Thanks, everyone!
Strange situation...
We have a public lab at the university where I work where most of the students access the internet and LAN applications, etc... In order to make sure that everything is correct for the students when they logon -- untill a couple of weeks ago we were on a 10MB backbone, so roaming profiles were out of the question -- we have a carefully configured default user profile and an all users profile which contains all the appropriate shortcuts for both the desktop and the start menu. We also run delprof each night to help make sure that the hard-drives don't get flooded with profiles.
Here's our problem:
When a student first logs onto a PC, everything is perfect. Oftentimes, though, if the student logs back off and then on again, things go awry. The desktop shortcuts (but not the builtin executable icons like Outlook and IE) appear at first but then vanish. The start menu no longer contains any folders or shortcuts but instead just says, "(empty)."
After a few more cycles of logging back off and on again, everything is returned to normal.
Any ideas? I can't find any policies on the student GPO which should be affecting the desktop or the start menus -- and certainly nothing that would make a problem like this only occur on a second subsequent login like that.
Thanks, everyone!
