The few times I've had to deal with this the problem turned out to be connectivity-related instead of the number of GPOs.
Can you ping all of your DCs from the workstations? Has it always been this way, or did something change? Is it all of the workstations all of the time, some of them all of the time, or seemingly random? Have you created a test OU with no GPOs at all to see what happens to users and computers placed there? Have you turned on user environment logging to see if there's anything useful in there? RS On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 1:53 AM, Matthew W. Ross <mr...@ephrataschools.org>wrote: > AD question here: For our computers on our network, especially our XP > machines, the "Applying Computer Settings" portion of the boot process takes > a very long time (4 minutes?) which makes the initial login for our users a > little painful. > > I am curious if I have something setup in a way that is not optimal: I have > various GPOs set for different settings... and I have the broken up into > individual GPOs. One for Automatic Updates, one for Internet Explorer > Behavior, one for Time Synchronization... I probably have 20-30 different > GPOs. All of this could be done with a lot fewer GPOs, but I originally > designed it this way so that it would be easy to adjust settings. (Also > because back in Windows Server 2000, it was difficult to tell what a single > GPO effected, and where those settings were set.) > > Is this fracturing of GPO settings the reason my computers take so long to > boot? Would consolidating these GPOs be faster? > > Also, is there a way to combine GPOs together? Otherwise I'll be doing it > by hand. > > Thanks for any help on this. > > > --Matt Ross > Ephrata School District > > ~ 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/> ~
