A long time ago I found a policy that I could apply to Win XP machines that would force the machines to wait until the network was fully ready before it would give the 'Press Ctrl-ALt-Del to Log On' screen. This completely eliminated the problem we were
having with roaming profiles not loading correctly after a cold boot.
How do I do the same for my new Windows 7 machines? Currently, if someone turns on a machine and tries to log in as soon as they can, more often than not they get the 'Problem with the User Profile Service' issue. Logging off and back on always works. Waiting about 30 seconds always works too.
Second problem - is there a way to do the same thing for when a machine is waking from sleep? Since these machines wake from sleep in a matter of a few seconds, it is not nearly enough time for the network card to get fully awake and reconnect to the network (talk to the DHCP server and renew its address, etc), so when the User tries to log in, the same thing as described above happens - then if they log off and back on, it logs on fine.
Thanks