windows 7 network on boot
Hi, my problem is that windows 7 pro joined to domain do not wait for the network to startup on boot. User is enable to log, but the network is not initialized yet ( checking if the computer IP's is assigned through DHCP ). And when user logs the network is initialized and works well. When I boot the computer and wait for 5-10 seconds at logon prompt the network is then initialized and works well. I have enabled "Always wait for network at computer startup and logon" setting in Group Policy. I have checked if the SyncForegroundPolicy registry settings is enabled. I have updated driver for network controller , nothings worked. Other computer's in domain wait for network, but this one doesn't and than software installation assigned in Group Policy do not apply. The error for Group Policy is "The processing of Group Policy failed because of lack of network connectivity to a domain controller. This may be a transient condition. A success message would be generated once the machine gets connected to the domain controller and Group Policy has succesfully processed. If you do not see a success message for several hours, then contact your administrator." Thanks for replies.
January 18th, 2010 11:38am

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January 19th, 2010 1:21am

Hi,I would like to share you the following link:http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc727335(WS.10).aspxThanks,Novak
January 25th, 2010 11:22am

Hi, my problem is not the network connectivity to a domain controller. My problem is that network startup when booting Win7 Pro computer joined to domain takes long time, and I don't know why. Therefore Group Policy on boot is not applied. As I have mentioned I have enabled "Always wait for network at computer startup and logon" but that have not made any difference to boot process of Win7. Win7 doesn't wait for network on boot, so I can logon to computer even when the computer hasn't got IP from DHCP server. But if I wait 30 seconds ( before logon , I wait at logon prompt , so I'm not loged to computer ) the IP address is assigned and network works ok. The only thing that have mades some progress was to set GpNetworkStartTimeoutPolicyValue value in registry. The processing of Computer Group Policy is delayed for the value I have set and in that time network is initialized so the software installation assigned through domain Computer Group Policy is applying. But it is not the solution I want to achieve. Thanks for replies.
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January 28th, 2010 11:38am

I am having the same issue and I am looking for a solution. In our case we have machines that autologon and use wireless. When connected to the wire we have no issues but these systems will be in wireless only areas.When on wireless and set for autologin the system boot too fast and scripts fail because the Wireless NIC is not up yet.We have enable the "Always Wait" policy but this does not seem to work in 7 as it did for XP. Any Ideas would be helpful ....
April 15th, 2010 5:22am

I am also having this probelm!! have spent days on it and still no good! have also enable the "Always Wait" policy but no good!! please help!
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July 5th, 2010 7:47am

I'm having the same issue, and looking around there are tons of other people having the problem as well. So far no solution has been posted. Right now our workaround is to have the user wait at the logon screen 30 seconds before logging in.
July 28th, 2010 6:25pm

Setting this to Enabled and default 30s worked for my machine startup GPO processing problem with Windows 7 on WLAN. Startup policy processing wait time Setting Path: Computer Configuration/Administrative Templates/System/Group Policy Supported On: At least Windows Vista Explanation This policy setting specifies how long Group Policy should wait for network availability notifications during startup policy processing. If the startup policy processing is synchronous, the computer is blocked until the network is available or the default wait time is reached. If the startup policy processing is asynchronous, the computer is not blocked and policy processing will occur in the background. In either case, configuring this policy setting overrides any system-computed wait times. If you enable this policy setting, Group Policy will use this administratively configured maximum wait time and override any default or system-computed wait time. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, Group Policy will use the default wait time of 30 seconds on computers running Windows Vista operating system.
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December 1st, 2010 8:48am

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