Active Desktop/Roaming Profiles/GPO Woes

[Guest Lincoln]

Hello all,

 

We have a Windows 2003 Domain (non R2) with about 250 end users. The users

all have roaming profiles. We use Group Policy to provide a consistent

desktop accross all machines. Every once in a while we will have a random

user who recieves an Active Desktop Recovery error and the wall paper we push

is replaced with the white background and annoy text stating that there has

been an Active Desktop Error. If you push the button to attempt to recover

the desktop, you receive a scripting error.

 

In the past, I would correct this by disabling the GPO, connect to the

user's computer and delete the desktop.htt file from C:\documents and

settings\username\application data\microsoft\internet explorer folder. I

would then delete the desktop.htt file from the same location in the copy of

thier profile on the server. Have them log off and log back on and thier

desktop would return to normal. I would then re-enable the desktop GPO and

everything would be fine.

 

I have one user where the above works until I re-enable the policy. If I

re-enable the GPO, the next time she logs in she recieves the Active Desktop

Recovery error again. I know this issue has something to do with the GPO we

have in place, but am not sure what to do about it.

 

Following are the settings in the GPO and the only event recieved in the

application log on the problem machine:

 

 

Computer Configuration (Disabled)

No settings defined.

 

 

User Configuration (Enabled)

Administrative Templates

Control Panel/Display

Policy Setting

Hide Desktop tab Enabled

Hide Screen Saver tab Enabled

Password protect the screen saver Enabled

Prevent changing wallpaper Enabled

Screen Saver Enabled

Screen Saver executable name Enabled

Screen Saver executable name logon.scr

 

 

Screen Saver timeout Enabled

Number of seconds to wait to

enable the Screen Saver Seconds: 600

 

 

Desktop/Active Desktop

Policy Setting

Active Desktop Wallpaper Enabled

Wallpaper Name: \\DFSName\dfs\common folders\common\aafcu_desktop.jpg

Wallpaper Style: Center

 

Policy Setting

Enable Active Desktop Enabled

Allows HTML and JPEG Wallpaper

 

 

 

Event Type: Warning

Event Source: Userenv

Event Category: None

Event ID: 1525

Date: 12/10/2007

Time: 10:12:03 AM

User: domain\rcook

Computer: ONBASE2

Description:

Windows has detected that Offline Caching is enabled on the Roaming Profile

share - to avoid potential profile corruption, Offline Caching must be

disabled on shares where roaming user profiles are stored.

 

 

 

For more information, see Help and Support Center at

http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

 

 

 

Does anyone have any advice on this? Thanks in Advance.