User logging in Windows for profile or group policy troubleshooting

This modification helps identify various logon problems including group policy processing and roaming profile issues. Very helpful but should be enabled for troubleshooting purposes only in verbose mode. Modify the following registry value: Subkey: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESoftwareMicrosoftWindows NTCurrentVersionWinlogon Entry: UserEnvDebugLevel Type: REG_DWORD Value data: 10002 (Hexadecimal) set this to 0x00030002 –this will give debug/verbose output: the log

Reset windows security settings to default

From time to time I have had the need to reset a Windows Server 2003 security settings. The following comand does a pretty good job in reseting the following paramaters: SECURITYPOLICY, GROUP_MGMT, USER_RIGHTS, REGKEYS, FILESTORE, and SERVICES. From the command prompt: secedit /configure /cfg %windir%repairsecsetup.inf /db sesetup.sdb /verbose You should eventually receive a “task complete”