Roaming Profile not Working

If you find your roaming profile isn't working, ensure Offline Files and Folders are switched off on the client pc:

My Computer -> Tools -> Folder Options -> Enable Offline Files (and uncheck the box) - instructions for Windows XP

This link also:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/287566

NT4 Timezone Fix

Only recently realised that the default time for the clocks to change on Windows NT is an hour later than it should be in the UK, meaning that if the clock change to GMT or DST at 2pm, the NT servers default to 3pm. To change this, here's the registry script to do so, plus a link below with some info regarding the variables in the script:

REGEDIT4
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\TimeZoneInformation]
"Bias"=dword:00000000"
StandardName"="GMT Standard Time"
"StandardBias"=dword:00000000
"StandardStart"=hex:00,00,0a,00,05,00,02,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00
"DaylightName"="GMT Daylight Time"
"DaylightBias"=dword:ffffffc4
"DaylightStart"=hex:00,00,03,00,05,00,01,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00
"ActiveTimeBias"=dword:ffffffc4

Pretty sure you need to restart the server for the change to take effect! Bring on the next clock change!

Info: http://www.jsifaq.com/SF/Tips/Tip.aspx?id=0398

Possible Syware - No SystemRoot variable

Had a user the other day who suddenly wasn't getting and drives mapped when he logged onto his computer. When attempting to troubleshoot the problem and jumped onto the command line and typed the usual ping which came back with:

'ping' is not recognized as an internal or external command,operable program or batch file!

This was a bit of a shock as ping is certainly a well known windows app. After ensuring ping did still exist on the user's pc in the correct location, i then (after a bit of a think) tried this:

echo %path% - came back with the correct entries

echo %systemroot% - came back with nothing!

True enough, after navigating to the system environmental variables the systemroot variable was not there - after adding it again all was fixed.

This seemed to be due to spyware as, after a run of CounterSpy, many bits of spyware were removed and has been fine ever since.