{"id":2223,"date":"2014-04-29T14:28:44","date_gmt":"2014-04-29T06:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.se.cuhk.edu.hk\/~hmleung\/wordpress\/?p=2223"},"modified":"2014-04-29T14:43:09","modified_gmt":"2014-04-29T06:43:09","slug":"blank-desktop-after-logon-windows-2008-r2-member-server","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www1.se.cuhk.edu.hk\/~hmleung\/wordpress\/?p=2223","title":{"rendered":"Blank desktop after logon Windows 2008 R2 member server"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As from a routine checking on a Win 2008 r2 domain member server, I found that a blank screen appears no matter I do console or remote desktop logon. I run ctrl-alt-del from console (or ctrl-alt-end from RDP), I can call up change password screen, but when I click &#8220;Start Task Manager&#8221;, it simply fails and show nothing.<\/p>\n<p>Since there is no more control interface for me in this member server, so I logon to the domain controller and then I check the application event log for this member server. Surprisingly it turns out the all user applications cannot be spawn from the Windows logon process.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.se.cuhk.edu.hk\/~hmleung\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/2008-blank-screen01.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.se.cuhk.edu.hk\/~hmleung\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/2008-blank-screen01.jpg\" alt=\"2008-blank-screen01\" width=\"1382\" height=\"687\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www1.se.cuhk.edu.hk\/~hmleung\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/2008-blank-screen01.jpg 1382w, https:\/\/www1.se.cuhk.edu.hk\/~hmleung\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/2008-blank-screen01-300x149.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www1.se.cuhk.edu.hk\/~hmleung\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/2008-blank-screen01-1024x509.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1382px) 100vw, 1382px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/kb\/970879\">fix<\/a> based on windows support site suggest adding back &#8220;Interactive&#8221; and &#8220;Authenticated Users&#8221; group to local Users group. Hence I add back these local group to local Users group from ADUC in domain controller. And that, It does fix the problem , though I don&#8217;t have a clue why these 2 groups are missing from this member server.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.se.cuhk.edu.hk\/~hmleung\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/2008-blank-screen02.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.se.cuhk.edu.hk\/~hmleung\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/2008-blank-screen02.jpg\" alt=\"2008-blank-screen02\" width=\"458\" height=\"479\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www1.se.cuhk.edu.hk\/~hmleung\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/2008-blank-screen02.jpg 458w, https:\/\/www1.se.cuhk.edu.hk\/~hmleung\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/2008-blank-screen02-286x300.jpg 286w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 458px) 100vw, 458px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As from a routine checking on a Win 2008 r2 domain member server, I found that a blank screen appears no matter I do console or remote desktop logon. I run ctrl-alt-del from console&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2229,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www1.se.cuhk.edu.hk\/~hmleung\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www1.se.cuhk.edu.hk\/~hmleung\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www1.se.cuhk.edu.hk\/~hmleung\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www1.se.cuhk.edu.hk\/~hmleung\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www1.se.cuhk.edu.hk\/~hmleung\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2223"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www1.se.cuhk.edu.hk\/~hmleung\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2236,"href":"https:\/\/www1.se.cuhk.edu.hk\/~hmleung\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2223\/revisions\/2236"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www1.se.cuhk.edu.hk\/~hmleung\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www1.se.cuhk.edu.hk\/~hmleung\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www1.se.cuhk.edu.hk\/~hmleung\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www1.se.cuhk.edu.hk\/~hmleung\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}