Question

Domain Clients getting 'Userenv Event 1085' error on login

Asked by: mcracco

Apparently I have a problem with my clients executing group policy. Most of my clients are logging this event when logging in:

Event Type: Error
Event Source: Userenv
Event Category: None
Event ID: 1085
Date:  2008-03-28
Time:  9:03:33 AM
User:  NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM
Computer: HP_MXL6370P14
Description:
The Group Policy client-side extension Scripts failed to execute. Please look for any errors reported earlier by that extension.

Clients are mostly XP and on occasion will have issues where Outlook will go offline. The temporary fix is to right click on the NIC, do a repair, then Outlook will start working again and the userenv errors will stop....for a while. Really have no idea what the connection is between a NIC refresh and group policy.

Any help is appreciated!!

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by: SkiptonBSPosted on 2008-03-28 at 06:26:10ID: 21230148

Try enabling Group Policy Debug logging on one of your clients and see whether the logs give you anything specific.

http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver/en/library/0907105e-7856-4c93-b97f-a9a306623af51033.mspx?mfr=true

 

by: mcraccoPosted on 2008-03-28 at 09:37:11ID: 21231905

Below is what I am seeing in userenv.log after a login. Nothing is jumping out at me as being broken. Not sure what the 'Failed to impersonate user' lines are at the end.

USERENV(4bc.1128) 12:30:12:406 ProcessGPOs: Calling GetGPOInfo for normal policy mode
USERENV(4bc.1128) 12:30:12:406 GetGPOInfo:  ********************************
USERENV(4bc.1128) 12:30:12:406 GetGPOInfo:  Entering...
USERENV(4bc.1128) 12:30:12:422 GetGPOInfo:  Server connection established.
USERENV(4bc.1128) 12:30:12:500 GetGPOInfo:  Bound successfully.
USERENV(4bc.1128) 12:30:12:531 SearchDSObject:  Searching <OU=Branch 01 Waterbury,DC=torringtonsupply,DC=com>
USERENV(4bc.1128) 12:30:12:531 SearchDSObject:  Found GPO(s):  < >
USERENV(4bc.1128) 12:30:12:531 SearchDSObject:  Searching <DC=torringtonsupply,DC=com>
USERENV(4bc.1128) 12:30:12:531 SearchDSObject:  Found GPO(s):  <[LDAP://CN={31B2F340-016D-11D2-945F-00C04FB984F9},CN=Policies,CN=System,DC=torringtonsupply,DC=com;2]>
USERENV(4bc.1128) 12:30:12:547 ProcessGPO:  ==============================
USERENV(4bc.1128) 12:30:12:547 ProcessGPO:  Deferring search for <LDAP://CN={31B2F340-016D-11D2-945F-00C04FB984F9},CN=Policies,CN=System,DC=torringtonsupply,DC=com>
USERENV(4bc.1128) 12:30:12:562 SearchDSObject:  Searching <CN=Branch1,CN=Sites,CN=Configuration,DC=torringtonsupply,DC=com>
USERENV(4bc.1128) 12:30:12:562 SearchDSObject:  No GPO(s) for this object.
USERENV(4bc.1128) 12:30:12:562 EvaluateDeferredGPOs:  Searching for GPOs in cn=policies,cn=system,DC=torringtonsupply,DC=com
USERENV(4bc.1128) 12:30:12:578 ProcessGPO:  ==============================
USERENV(4bc.1128) 12:30:12:578 ProcessGPO:  Searching <CN={31B2F340-016D-11D2-945F-00C04FB984F9},CN=Policies,CN=System,DC=torringtonsupply,DC=com>
USERENV(4bc.1128) 12:30:12:578 ProcessGPO:  User has access to this GPO.
USERENV(4bc.1128) 12:30:12:578 ProcessGPO:  GPO passes the filter check.
USERENV(4bc.1128) 12:30:12:578 ProcessGPO:  Found functionality version of:  2
USERENV(4bc.1128) 12:30:12:594 ProcessGPO:  Found file system path of:  <\\torringtonsupply.com\sysvol\torringtonsupply.com\Policies\{31B2F340-016D-11D2-945F-00C04FB984F9}>
USERENV(4bc.1128) 12:30:12:656 ProcessGPO:  Found common name of:  <{31B2F340-016D-11D2-945F-00C04FB984F9}>
USERENV(4bc.1128) 12:30:12:656 ProcessGPO:  Found display name of:  <Default Domain Policy>
USERENV(4bc.1128) 12:30:12:656 ProcessGPO:  Found user version of:  GPC is 17, GPT is 11
USERENV(4bc.1128) 12:30:12:656 ProcessGPO:  Found flags of:  0
USERENV(4bc.1128) 12:30:12:672 ProcessGPO:  Found extensions:  [{3060E8D0-7020-11D2-842D-00C04FA372D4}{3060E8CE-7020-11D2-842D-00C04FA372D4}][{35378EAC-683F-11D2-A89A-00C04FBBCFA2}{0F6B957E-509E-11D1-A7CC-0000F87571E3}][{42B5FAAE-6536-11D2-AE5A-0000F87571E3}{40B66650-4972-11D1-A7CA-0000F87571E3}][{A2E30F80-D7DE-11D2-BBDE-00C04F86AE3B}{FC715823-C5FB-11D1-9EEF-00A0C90347FF}]
USERENV(4bc.1128) 12:30:12:672 ProcessGPO:  ==============================
USERENV(4bc.1128) 12:30:12:687 GetGPOInfo:  GPO Local Group Policy doesn't contain any data since the version number is 0.  It will be skipped.
USERENV(4bc.1128) 12:30:12:687 GetGPOInfo:  Leaving with 1
USERENV(4bc.1128) 12:30:12:703 GetGPOInfo:  ********************************
USERENV(4bc.1128) 12:30:12:703 ProcessGPOs: Logging Data for Target <mcracco>.
USERENV(4bc.1128) 12:30:12:703 ProcessGPOs: OpenThreadToken failed with error 1008, assuming thread is not impersonating
USERENV(4bc.1128) 12:30:12:719 ProcessGPOs: -----------------------
USERENV(4bc.1128) 12:30:12:734 ProcessGPOs: Processing extension Registry
USERENV(4bc.1128) 12:30:12:734 ReadStatus: Read Extension's Previous status successfully.
USERENV(4bc.1128) 12:30:12:734 CompareGPOLists:  The lists are the same.
USERENV(4bc.1128) 12:30:12:734 CheckGPOs: No GPO changes and no security group membership change and extension Registry has NoGPOChanges set.
USERENV(4bc.1128) 12:30:12:734 ProcessGPOs: -----------------------
USERENV(4bc.1128) 12:30:12:750 ProcessGPOs: -----------------------
USERENV(4bc.1128) 12:30:12:750 ProcessGPOs: Processing extension Wireless
USERENV(4bc.1128) 12:30:12:750 CompareGPOLists:  The lists are the same.
USERENV(4bc.1128) 12:30:12:750 CheckGPOs: No GPO changes but couldn't read extension Wireless's status or policy time.
USERENV(4bc.1128) 12:30:12:750 ProcessGPOs: Extension Wireless skipped with flags 0x6.
USERENV(4bc.1128) 12:30:12:750 ProcessGPOs: -----------------------
USERENV(4bc.1128) 12:30:12:766 ProcessGPOs: Processing extension Folder Redirection
USERENV(4bc.1128) 12:30:12:766 CompareGPOLists:  The lists are the same.
USERENV(4bc.1128) 12:30:12:766 CompareGPOLists:  The lists are the same.
USERENV(4bc.1128) 12:30:12:766 CheckGPOs: No GPO changes but couldn't read extension Folder Redirection's status or policy time.
USERENV(4bc.1128) 12:30:12:766 ProcessGPOs: Extension Folder Redirection skipped because both deleted and changed GPO lists are empty.
USERENV(4bc.1128) 12:30:12:781 ProcessGPOs: -----------------------
USERENV(4bc.1128) 12:30:12:781 ProcessGPOs: Processing extension Microsoft Disk Quota
USERENV(4bc.1128) 12:30:12:781 CompareGPOLists:  The lists are the same.
USERENV(4bc.1128) 12:30:12:781 CheckGPOs: No GPO changes but couldn't read extension Microsoft Disk Quota's status or policy time.
USERENV(4bc.1128) 12:30:12:781 ProcessGPOs: Extension Microsoft Disk Quota skipped with flags 0x6.
USERENV(4bc.1128) 12:30:12:797 ProcessGPOs: -----------------------
USERENV(4bc.1128) 12:30:12:797 ProcessGPOs: Processing extension QoS Packet Scheduler
USERENV(4bc.1128) 12:30:12:797 CompareGPOLists:  The lists are the same.
USERENV(4bc.1128) 12:30:12:797 CheckGPOs: No GPO changes but couldn't read extension QoS Packet Scheduler's status or policy time.
USERENV(4bc.1128) 12:30:12:797 ProcessGPOs: Extension QoS Packet Scheduler skipped with flags 0x6.
USERENV(4bc.1128) 12:30:12:812 ProcessGPOs: -----------------------
USERENV(4bc.1128) 12:30:12:812 ProcessGPOs: Processing extension Scripts
USERENV(4bc.1128) 12:30:12:812 ReadStatus: Read Extension's Previous status successfully.
USERENV(4bc.1128) 12:30:12:812 CompareGPOLists:  Different version numbers found
USERENV(4bc.1128) 12:30:12:812 ProcessGPOList: Entering for extension Scripts
USERENV(4bc.1128) 12:30:12:828 UserPolicyCallback: Setting status UI to Applying Scripts policy...
USERENV(4bc.1128) 12:30:12:844 GetWbemServices: CoCreateInstance succeeded
USERENV(4bc.1128) 12:30:12:906 ConnectToNameSpace: ConnectServer returned 0x0
USERENV(4bc.1128) 12:30:12:984 LogExtSessionStatus: Successfully logged Extension Session data
USERENV(4bc.1128) 12:30:13:031 ProcessGPOList: Extension Scripts returned 0x2.
USERENV(4bc.1128) 12:30:13:031 ProcessGPOList: Extension Scripts was able to log data. RsopStatus = 0x0, dwRet = 2, Clearing the dirty bit
USERENV(4bc.1128) 12:30:13:031 ProcessGPOs: Extension Scripts ProcessGroupPolicy failed, status 0x2.
USERENV(4bc.1128) 12:30:13:047 ProcessGPOs: -----------------------
USERENV(4bc.1128) 12:30:13:047 ProcessGPOs: -----------------------
USERENV(4bc.1128) 12:30:13:047 ProcessGPOs: Processing extension Internet Explorer Zonemapping
USERENV(4bc.1128) 12:30:13:047 CompareGPOLists:  The lists are the same.
USERENV(4bc.1128) 12:30:13:047 CheckGPOs: No GPO changes but couldn't read extension Internet Explorer Zonemapping's status or policy time.
USERENV(4bc.1128) 12:30:13:062 ProcessGPOs: Extension Internet Explorer Zonemapping skipped because both deleted and changed GPO lists are empty.
USERENV(4bc.1128) 12:30:13:062 ProcessGPOs: -----------------------
USERENV(4bc.1128) 12:30:13:062 ProcessGPOs: Processing extension Security
USERENV(4bc.1128) 12:30:13:062 CompareGPOLists:  The lists are the same.
USERENV(4bc.1128) 12:30:13:062 CheckGPOs: No GPO changes but couldn't read extension Security's status or policy time.
USERENV(4bc.1128) 12:30:13:078 ProcessGPOs: Extension Security skipped with flags 0x6.
USERENV(4bc.1128) 12:30:13:078 ProcessGPOs: -----------------------
USERENV(4bc.1128) 12:30:13:078 ProcessGPOs: Processing extension Internet Explorer Branding
USERENV(4bc.1128) 12:30:13:078 ReadStatus: Read Extension's Previous status successfully.
USERENV(4bc.1128) 12:30:13:078 CompareGPOLists:  The lists are the same.
USERENV(4bc.1128) 12:30:13:094 CheckGPOs: No GPO changes and no security group membership change and extension Internet Explorer Branding has NoGPOChanges set.
USERENV(4bc.1128) 12:30:13:094 ProcessGPOs: -----------------------
USERENV(4bc.1128) 12:30:13:094 ProcessGPOs: -----------------------
USERENV(4bc.1128) 12:30:13:094 ProcessGPOs: Processing extension EFS recovery
USERENV(4bc.1128) 12:30:13:094 CompareGPOLists:  The lists are the same.
USERENV(4bc.1128) 12:30:13:109 CheckGPOs: No GPO changes but couldn't read extension EFS recovery's status or policy time.
USERENV(4bc.1128) 12:30:13:109 ProcessGPOs: Extension EFS recovery skipped with flags 0x6.
USERENV(4bc.1128) 12:30:13:109 ProcessGPOs: -----------------------
USERENV(4bc.1128) 12:30:13:109 ProcessGPOs: Processing extension Microsoft Offline Files
USERENV(4bc.1128) 12:30:13:109 CompareGPOLists:  The lists are the same.
USERENV(4bc.1128) 12:30:13:125 CheckGPOs: No GPO changes but couldn't read extension Microsoft Offline Files's status or policy time.
USERENV(4bc.1128) 12:30:13:125 ProcessGPOs: Extension Microsoft Offline Files skipped with flags 0x6.
USERENV(4bc.1128) 12:30:13:125 ProcessGPOs: -----------------------
USERENV(4bc.1128) 12:30:13:125 ProcessGPOs: Processing extension Software Installation
USERENV(4bc.1128) 12:30:13:125 CompareGPOLists:  The lists are the same.
USERENV(4bc.1128) 12:30:13:141 CompareGPOLists:  The lists are the same.
USERENV(4bc.1128) 12:30:13:141 CheckGPOs: No GPO changes but couldn't read extension Software Installation's status or policy time.
USERENV(4bc.1128) 12:30:13:141 ProcessGPOs: Extension Software Installation skipped because both deleted and changed GPO lists are empty.
USERENV(4bc.1128) 12:30:13:141 ProcessGPOs: -----------------------
USERENV(4bc.1128) 12:30:13:141 ProcessGPOs: Processing extension IP Security
USERENV(4bc.1128) 12:30:13:156 CompareGPOLists:  The lists are the same.
USERENV(4bc.1128) 12:30:13:156 CheckGPOs: No GPO changes but couldn't read extension IP Security's status or policy time.
USERENV(4bc.1128) 12:30:13:156 ProcessGPOs: Extension IP Security skipped with flags 0x6.
USERENV(4bc.1128) 12:30:13:156 SetFgRefreshInfo: Previous User Fg policy Synchronous, Reason: NonCachedCredentials.
USERENV(4bc.1128) 12:30:13:156 SetFgRefreshInfo: Next User Fg policy Asynchronous, Reason: NoNeedForSync.
USERENV(4bc.1128) 12:30:13:172 LeaveCriticalPolicySection: Critical section 0x720 has been released.
USERENV(4bc.1128) 12:30:13:172 ProcessGPOs: User Group Policy has been applied.
USERENV(4bc.1128) 12:30:13:172 ProcessGPOs: Leaving with 1.
USERENV(4bc.1128) 12:30:13:172 ApplyGroupPolicy: Leaving successfully.
USERENV(4bc.d20) 12:30:13:172 GPOThread:  Next refresh will happen in 109 minutes
USERENV(4bc.4c0) 12:30:13:594 IsSyncForegroundPolicyRefresh: Asynchronous, Reason: NoNeedForSync
USERENV(4bc.16cc) 12:30:13:594 IsSyncForegroundPolicyRefresh: Asynchronous, Reason: NoNeedForSync
USERENV(4bc.16cc) 12:30:13:609 ProcessAutoexec: Cannot process autoexec.bat.
USERENV(1224.15a8) 12:30:14:094 LibMain: Process Name:  C:\WINDOWS\system32\userinit.exe
USERENV(5fc.1508) 12:30:14:094 LibMain: Process Name:  C:\WINDOWS\system32\userinit.exe
USERENV(4f4.544) 12:30:14:391 ImpersonateUser: Failed to impersonate user with 5.
USERENV(4f4.544) 12:30:14:391 GetUserNameAndDomain Failed to impersonate user
USERENV(4f4.544) 12:30:14:391 ImpersonateUser: Failed to impersonate user with 5.
USERENV(4f4.544) 12:30:14:406 GetUserDNSDomainName: Failed to impersonate user
USERENV(4f4.544) 12:30:14:406 ProcessAutoexec: Cannot process autoexec.bat.
USERENV(4f4.544) 12:30:14:437 ImpersonateUser: Failed to impersonate user with 5.

 

by: SkiptonBSPosted on 2008-03-28 at 09:46:07ID: 21231996

You haven't got any rogue DNS servers on your clients have you?

Are there any other messages in the Application/System Event Log?

 

by: mcraccoPosted on 2008-03-31 at 05:37:54ID: 21244781

I guess the honest answer to that has to be yes. I had the secondary DNS server on my clients pointing to their ISP's DNS. The thinking being if a wan link went down a remote site would still be able to get Internet access and hence be able to continue working. But I believe that is what was causing my Outlook issue. I changed the secondary DNS back to my backup DC and Outlook is now behaving normally. While everyone is happier when Outlook works I still feel like this is a step backwards as I have lost some disaster readiness.

Maybe not so incidentally, gpresult is telling me group policy is being applied from the backup server. And System Event Log is complaining about it:

Event Type:      Warning
Event Source:      LSASRV
Event Category:      SPNEGO (Negotiator)
Event ID:      40961
Date:            2008-03-31
Time:            7:15:32 AM
User:            N/A
Computer:      HP_MXL6370P14
Description:
The Security System could not establish a secured connection with the server ldap/backup.torringtonsupply.com/torringtonsupply.com@torringtonsupply.com.  No authentication protocol was available.

Seems like the question now becomes; why am I pointed to the backup DC for group policy rather than the primary DC?

 

by: SkiptonBSPosted on 2008-03-31 at 05:49:37ID: 21244849

In the world of Windows 2000/2003 there is not such thing as a Backup Domain Controller. All DC's are equal apart from some specialised roles (FSMO Roles) they hold.

When a user logs onto a client workstation they can be authenticated via either of the DC, meaning that either of the DC's can also deploy the GPO's.

With regards to you LSASVR error above i would take a look at the following artical. I've seen this a number of times.

http://www.experts-exchange.com/OS/Microsoft_Operating_Systems/Windows/XP/Q_22850927.html

There are a number of things you can do regarding you DR DNS situation.

To begin with i would configure DNS via Group Policy then you can have more than 2 DNS Servers. You may find that if you have both your DC's and then your external DNS Outlook may work better.

If not then you should place a DNS Server at the remote location. You could either setup a Windows 2003 server to handle this or depending on your router, and whether or not it supports DNS forwarding you could configure it on your router.

 

by: mcraccoPosted on 2008-04-02 at 11:44:55ID: 21266101

Thanks, I am trying to follow the suggestions in the supplied links as time premits. Will report back what I find.

 

by: mcraccoPosted on 2008-04-28 at 10:01:55ID: 21455626

I think I found the problem. Upon opening GP Editor on my secondary DC I get about 50 thousand dialogs complaining: "The following entry in the [strings] section is too long and has been truncated." Why I 'm seeing this now I do not understand but a quick Google points me to KB842933. I apply the patch, reboot, and no more 'Group Policy client-side extension Scripts failed to execute' messages in Event Viewer. Cool.

To early to tell if my issue with Outlook going offline is corrected but I am guessing it is. I do know that before the patch login scripts we executing intermittently and I was having trouble mapping drives.That problem seems to have cleared up.

SkiptonBS, thanks for the help and I will gift you the points as you gave good input and got me looking at the right server.

 

by: SkiptonBSPosted on 2008-04-29 at 03:02:34ID: 21460814

Glad you sorted it mate. I know problems like this can leave you pulling your hair out!

 

by: mcraccoPosted on 2008-04-29 at 03:54:25ID: 21461034

Actually....I'm not out of the woods yet. It appears the old symptoms came back after a couple hours. Although the patch fixed the truncation issue, I'm thinking the reboot was more the reason for the temporary fix of the GP problem. To be continued...

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