Marcus-
The answer to your question is yes. Basically, if a slow link is
detected, the various Client Side Extensions for stuff like Software
Installation and Folder Redirection will simply not fire, even if the
bits (e.g. MSI package) are on a fast link. One way around this is to
use Admin. Template policy to modify the slow-link threshold, which is
set to 500 Kb/s by default. 

Darren

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Gil, does this also apply if the binaries are stored in an alternate
location such as Dfs?

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Oliver,

The GPO processing on the client side includes a short test to determine
the available bandwidth to the authenticating DC. If the bandwidth is
below a certain threshold, the costlier bits of GPO processing such as
application deployment will not be applied.

See http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US%3B227260
And http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;227369

-gil

Gil Kirkpatrick
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Whilst tinkering (read breaking) AD now that we have multiple sites
setup in it, I was wondering this;

We have a GPO that installs SP4 by way of an msi file. Now that the
scottish office has been brought into the fold, and the DNS is working
so that all machines can resolve all other names on the network, is it
likely that when/if they reboot the SP4 install will be sent via the
not-so-quick 256kbps line to scotland ? 

On that note, if a user with a roaming profile from the southern office
goes to log on to scotlands workstations (happens often) will his
machine attempt to download the profile from the servers in the southern
office thereby flooding the line with stuff ?

Eeek

Olly

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