OS: Windows 2003 x86 SP2
Services: Terminal Services, Citrix
Background: I’ve seen a number of hosts with the error “Windows cannot determine the user or computer name. (The specified user does not exist. ). Group Policy processing aborted.) After trying rejoining the domain and checking OU etc, I called Microsoft. The issue turned out to be slow link detection with the domain controllers.
Example:
Event Type: Error
Event Source: Userenv
Event Category: None
Event ID: 1053
Date: 4/13/2012
Time: 3:49:01 PM
User: NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM
Computer: SERVER
Description:
Windows cannot determine the user or computer name. (The specified user does not exist. ). Group Policy processing aborted.
RESOLUTION: We just need to disable slow link detection on the computer and user environments in the registry:
You may have to create the “System” keys if they don’t exist
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\System
Value name: GroupPolicyMinTransferRate
Value type: DWORD
Value Data: 0
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\System
Value name: GroupPolicyMinTransferRate
Value type: DWORD
Value Data: 0
Please refer to: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;910206 for more information.