I did ask this in the Microsoft Community, got got pointed over to WindowsServer on TechNet Forums hence here goes again:
I'm having some issues with machines hanging at please wait... with errors 5719 then 1055 in the event logs.
On the KB article it's not clear what setting is used from HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Group Policy\Historyto set the timeout as it's not one we're defining via group policy. I'll of course do some testing using group policy to define the setting to a test OU, but if anyone does know if either CurrentWaitAtStartup or AvgWaitTimeoutAtStartup is the value used to determine the timeout I'd be very intreasted to know.
It could also be some other value entirely they just look like the two most possible options form that KB article, but I'm failing to get my head round exactly what value I am meant to look up from:HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Group Policy\HistoryTo answer the question
Yes this computer is in an Active Directoy Domain and the exact issue seems to be an endless hang during the Please Wait... stage before Ctrl + Alt + Del to logon is shown. This endless hang doesn't always happen, so it's quite hard to debug. We've enabled as much verbose logging on sone test machines, but we're awaiting one of the machines with verbose logging turned on to manage to hang at this stage.
On the the symptoms is the logon scripts are appearing to run suggesting domain connectivity, but are then unable to connect to network resources.
Thanks,
Mike