Hello all. I had asked this in the RDP forum but was directed to post again in the IE forum here. Below is the relevant text of my original post.
My firm has a farm of Server 2008 servers acting as terminal servers for our end users, with roaming profiles enabled.
When creating a new user's profile we select Google as the default search engine for IE8's search box. This leaves just two providers, Google and Bing. Later I'll look at the dropdown list for any random user and find dozens of available search providers, a single Bing plus repeated Google entries. I'm certain the users aren't somehow doing this themselves, because I've yet to find an unaffected user.
As near as I can tell some users' default provider are added to the list for others. I can reduce the list down to just two again manually, but the root of the issue remains and the list gets populated again. I'm unsure what triggers the re-listing.
I've found that the relevant registry key is HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchScopes, but this doesn't give me any leads about why the repeated entries. It confirms my notion that multiple users are at the root of this, because many of the registry values list other users by name.
Does anybody know what causes this and how to prevent it?
Any help would be appreciated.