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Forcing Windows 7 Pro machines to always 'Wait for network', both when powering up, and when waking from sleep

Answered Forcing Windows 7 Pro machines to always 'Wait for network', both when powering up, and when waking from sleep

  • Friday, February 01, 2013 7:23 PM
     
     
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    A long time ago I found a policy that I could apply to Win XP machines that would force the machines to wait until the network was fully ready before it would give the 'Press Ctrl-ALt-Del to Log On' screen. This completely eliminated the problem we were having with roaming profiles not loading correctly after a cold boot.

    How do I do the same for my new Windows 7 machines? Currently, if someone turns on a machine and tries to log in as soon as they can, more often than not they get the 'Problem with the User Profile Service' issue. Logging off and back on always works. Waiting about 30 seconds always works too.

    Second problem - is there a way to do the same thing for when a machine is waking from sleep? Since these machines wake from sleep in a matter of a few seconds, it is not nearly enough time for the network card to get fully awake and reconnect to the network (talk to the DHCP server and renew its address, etc), so when the User tries to log in, the same thing as described above happens - then if they log off and back on, it logs on fine.

    Thanks

     

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  • Friday, February 01, 2013 8:36 PM
     
     
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    http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/gg486839.aspx

    Hive HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
    Key path SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters
    Value name ArpRetryCount
    Value type REG_DWORD
    Value data 0x0 (0)

    Hive HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
    Key path SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters
    Value name DisableDHCPMediaSense
    Value type REG_DWORD
    Value data 0x0 (0)

     
  • Sunday, February 03, 2013 3:53 PM
     
     
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    Thanks for the reply Brano,

    However, I already had that GPO enabled, so it isn't working as desired.

     
  • Monday, February 04, 2013 9:20 AM
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    Hi,

    Run gpresult /h report.html command on Windows 7 clients to have a check if the setting has applied successfully.

    Regards,
    Cicely