I am having a problem with profile creation on Win 7 32-bit clients running under SBS 2011 Standard (Dell T420, dual Xeon, 32GB RAM).
If the Win7 box is new (or fresh OS install) there are no problems. If I have to re-create a profile, I am not able to run any 16-bit apps. I get the following error when I try so much as to run command.com: "config.nt The system file is not suitable for running MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows applications. Choose 'Close' to terminate the application". If I then go back into another previously created profile that was working, command.com runs fine. It should be noted that the problem is confined to 16-bit applications. Everything else runs without issue.
It doesn't matter if I dump the original profile from users or profilelist. Recreated profiles will not run command com. The only solution we have been able to come up with is to re-image the Win7 systems to factory, then everything runs fine.
Any ideas as to what in profile creation might be causing the 16 bit apps to bomb? I've got a vibe it's got something to do with 8.3 naming convention used by those 16bit apps, but I'm just speculating. Perhaps this isn't the correct forum to ask this question, but I have only seen it on one network, an SBS 2011. Of course these guys use an old Mom and Pop 16 bit app as their bread and butter application, so I've had to blow out 20 PCs to factory. Thank god for disk images.
Thanks for any help or insight. It's a real head scratcher.
Joe Welna