Some background information. I am deploying Windows 7 images to machines on our domain via MDT. I have configured group policy to push out a preset list of favorites to each user. Internet Explorer version is 8. While this works most of the time, about 25% of the time (VERY rough guess) the user will log in and the favorites will not be there. When this happens, they can usually log out of windows and log back then the favorites will be there.
I could not find any problems with group policy so I took a look at my MDT unattended.xml through the WSIM. Under Components>specialize>x86_Microsoft-Windows-IE-InternetExplorer_neutral, there is a setting called "FavoritesDelete" that is set to true. I believe this has embedded the setting into our image to delete user favorites either on logon or logoff and it is conflicting with our GPO's.
Can anyone confirm or deny my suspicions that this is the cause of the problem? I am tempted to change the setting and reimage all the computers but the time required to do that considering our production hours would be bothersome. If this setting is causing my problem, is there a way to reverse it via gpo or registry setting?
