Hello all, I work in a High School and we have an issue whereby when the stusents enter their credentials to log on to the domain and log on, if they wait for a few seconds, unplug the Network cable, the Profile continues to load and if they then plug it back in when the desktop appears, they have a kind of mixed desktop based on the mandatory profile on the server and the default profile of the PC which in turn opens up the full start menu as Group Policy fails (WMI Errors in Event Log) due to there being no network connectivity so nothing applies to stop them from essentially breaking the PC's. Has anyone had this issue before or could suggest a fix for this? This is obviously a security risk as the students appear to have full rights to the PC whereas we have it set by group policy etc to lock everything down. We also have some XP machines and if the steps above are carried out, the same thing happens with that We currently operate at Windows Server 2008 functional level and all of our DC's are Server 2008 32bit /Server 2008 R2 Thanks in advance David

Milos, We have "always wait for network" applied to the computer policy but not to the user. Should this be applied to the users aswell? Wehr, we don't allow students to be local admins or power users, they are simply users and this all. The problem lies with the fact they seem to get a split profile between the default profile which is housed on the PC and their own mandatory profile that is pulled from the server. Thanks