Hi
I’ve remade our deployment environment over the last couple of months and have encountered a problem with restoring user state. Before stating the problem, I’ll give an outline of the setup.
Forest Functional Level: Server 2008 R2
Domain Controllers: Server 2008 R2
MDT Server: Server 2012 R2 with MDT 2013
WDS Server: Server 2012 R2
Client OS: Windows 7 SP1
When I deploy a client image to a new laptop for a user and restore the user data from a network share, the laptop doesn’t correctly apply the GPO that applies the employees WiFi settings.
Our employees WiFi SSID is hidden and this policy displays the hidden SSID in the available networks of the laptop that’s in the scope of the GPO. The same policy also prohibits the laptop from connecting to the guests WiFi SSID. When restoring user data, the guests WiFi is still denied but the employees WiFi isn’t listed. It’s as if only half of the GPO is applying.
If have a workaround which is to uninstall Symantec EPP, at which point the employees WiFi appears again and so I reinstall Symantec. It’s a work around but I see it as an annoying unnecessary step.
I’ve done some experimentation to narrow down the issue. Firstly, the problem doesn’t occur if I specify not to restore user data. When doing this, the employees WiFi appears as expected and there is no need to uninstall Symantec. Secondly I have removed Symantec from the task sequence and the problem still occurs. Thirdly I then removed all additional software from the task sequence so that only the reference image, laptop specific drivers and user data is deployed and the problem still occurs.
The only option that seems to be causing the problem is restoring user data.
Has anyone else seen this problem and got any pointers?
David