Our backups start at 8:30PM. We do very few blast email internally. There might be some anti virus updates and I'm checking those out.
Murray -----Original Message----- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 5:12 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: NETWORK RUNS SLOW AFTER 5PM Backups on your file or email servers? On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 15:01, Murray Freeman <mfree...@alanet.org> wrote: > We have an AWS (alternate work schedule) whereby if you choose you can > work longer days such that you get a Friday off every other week. So, > while our regular working hours are 8:30AM to 5:00PM, there are always > a small number of people left in the building and thus the network > after 5PM. Of these people, a couple have complained that after 5PM > thenetwork really slows down, or at least they have delays printing > and opening documents. One individual has told me that precisely at > 5:17PM each evening, her workstation virtually comes to a standstill > for about 20 minutes, and then goes back to normal. I've checked the > event logs on the servers, and snothing special is going on. I'm going > to hang around this evening and take a look at the task manager on the > one workstation to see if I can see if any process isusing up all the > CPU resources. I'll check the event logs on the workstation as well. > We're running Win XP and Windows Server 2003. I have suspicians about > something "sinister" like someone using our machines as bots, but it's > more than likely an internal issue. Any thouhgts would be appreciated. > > > Murray ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~