Windows 7 Pro reverts back to workgroup from domain.
I have a customer who's laptop keeps reverting back from a domain to a workgroup. The user reboots and the domain goes away. He is able to login under a local admin account and then re-join to the domain and his profile and everything are back. It will work fine for a few day to a week and then itreverts back to workgroup for no reason.
July 13th, 2010 9:44am

Hi, Are you sure his laptop is not infected to any viruses? What OS is he running? Windows 7?MCT, MCSA/MCSE Security http://esitech.spaces.live.com/
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July 13th, 2010 12:18pm

Windows 7 Pro 32-bit Running symantec end point and its virus free.
July 13th, 2010 4:12pm

Hi Brad, I can remember that symantec had some product called "goback". I'm not sure if it is still a sold. However its purpose was to restore the system state of a computer. Is it possible that your customer is using any symantec component that restores the system state regulary? That would explain the strange behaviour. Ralf
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July 13th, 2010 7:37pm

Does not have goback on it. Actually found out that he did not have symantec but had AVG. He does regularfull scans and does not show any virus's. Had him remove AVG and install Symantec Endpoint protection and do a full scan and it found nothing. Malwarebytes comes out clean to. Any other ideas?
July 14th, 2010 12:03pm

Hi, Some anti-virus standard protection may cause this issue, please uninstall the anti-virus, change the computer name and re-join to the domain to see if the issue persists. Best Regards DalePlease remember to click Mark as Answer on the post that helps you, and to click Unmark as Answer if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.
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July 15th, 2010 3:17am

Did you find a solution or find what was causing this to happen? I have several win7 machines that seem to almost restore back to pre domain configs. I have sys restore disabled through gp, we do use symantec endpoint v(12.1), no other restore software is used. My users do not have the rights to do much of anything so I'm lost, any ideas?
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