Please take the time to read completely, this HAS NOT been solvable with 'normal' profile replacements. Also, yes, I know that roaming profiles are a pain, but we have to work with what we've got.
1. We have a mobile fleet of about 70 vehicles with laptops that connect via wifi-modems.
2. There is a GPO involved that keeps (kept) user profiles from up/down loading to vehicle laptops- user could log onto the device/network and had standard desktops.
3. And new/young administrator misread the vehicle GPO as if it were "disabled" (classic Microsoft misread) and "enabled" it for about 12 hours. For those that are unaware 'disabled' often means 'enabled' in Microsoft GPO and vice versa.
4. Older admin comes in in the morning and takes it back to "disabled" and cautions newby that this would normally bea termination offence. But the older admin...