Hi Neil, Thanks some long forgotten security profile settings seem to have woken up. Computer policy refresh on each start up so why only a subset of users are suffering is still a bit of a mystery. Some rethinking of our policies is in order methinks.
Thank you for your help. Gary --- -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ruston, Neil Sent: 03 August 2005 09:43 To: 'ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org' Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Group Policy delays - Are your subnets and sites defined correctly? If not, clients may authenticate and process GPOs from DCs across slow WAN links. - Does your GPO contain lots of registry and/or file DACL/SACL settings? This could account for the slow processing. neil -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gary Clark Sent: 03 August 2005 09:32 To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: [ActiveDir] Group Policy delays Hello, We have 300 identical Dell GX270's running XP in a 2003 Active Directory and we are seeing a few (<1%) suffering from extremely long logons. The applying computer settings is displayed after the users signs in and stays there for some 20-30 Mins, during which time the HDD activity light is near constantly on. Given a long enough wait the PC then opens the desktop and behaves itself. Having started, the computer can then be re-started and the PC starts in a timely fashion with no delay. The logs show clean, and the long delays can be experienced whether or not a change to the Group policy has been published. We suspected that it follows a user not shutting down cleanly and that some sort of chkdsk may be running (scanning a 120GB drive could be expected to take half an hour), however we have users who swear blind that they are shutting their computers down nicely and still having the slow starts. The Policies that we run are minimal and if it were a screwed up policy it would effect all computers as the OU structure does not separate the computers. If anyone has some thoughts for seeking out the root cause I would be very grateful. Cheers Gary List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ ======================================================================== ====== Please access the attached hyperlink for an important electronic communications disclaimer: http://www.csfb.com/legal_terms/disclaimer_external_email.shtml ======================================================================== ====== List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
