Hi
Here's a summary of the issue and our environment.
We introduced block inhereitance at the top level of the ou that contains our desktop portion of AD. This ou also contains the view OUs which also have inheritance blocked on them and relevant policies linked so specific view policies like persona management should be unaffected by any change in the desktop admin OU although of course the users will still be affected.
After making this change (within five minutes( a couple of people reported the following error message.
windows could not connect to the Group Policy Client Service. Please consult with your
system administrator.
Another user reported an error relating to the event service service not starting.
In the case of the first message this user was able to log on a few hours later with no issues.
In the case of the other user we tested logging on as them on blast and via the client and were sometimes successful and sometimes not with no discernable pattern.
The following day we had three more users with the group policy client service error. In all three cases they were able to log in after waiting a few minutes but there personas were back to the default. We had to restore the personas from backup
the following error messages were in their even logs.
the group policy client service did not shutdown properly after receiving a preshutdown control and persona management did not shut down properly after receiving a preshutdown control
There were also messages relating to the DCs being uncontable but availablity of these is 100%.
I've found many threads elsewhere relating to the group policy error and none of the answers seem relavant to view
in this thread another admin complains that every time they make a gpo change they get this error.
We've reverted the GPO change and the issue has gone away. Is anyone familiar with this issue at all.
The info I have to hand on our view setup is:
VMware view 5.3
DCs are at 2008 R2
Affected users were from an automated pool on linked clones
mainly linked-clone pools
Sorry if my info is incomplete. I'm not out view adminstrator. Happy to dig out any other info.
Currently we're afraid to touch group policy at all at the desktop admin OU in case anything breaks. We have over 100 users who depend on this service so we're walking on eggshells.