[gptalk] Re: Group Policies and long login times.

  • From: "Timothy J. Parker" <timparker@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <gptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:52:00 -0400

Ok, thats good to know. Currently we have Watchguard Products in place. I have 
a couple Cisco 506E's that they bought and never used (they are EoL'd now -- 
but still usable I guess). I might have to try it out and see what happens. 
Wish I had a real testing environment! hehe. 
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Doug & Katie Neely 
  To: gptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2008 3:18 PM
  Subject: [gptalk] Re: Group Policies and long login times.


  I just set this on our servers (not on the DCs) and that seemed to take care 
of the problem.  We have mostly noticed this problem at locations where we have 
Sonicwall devices, if that helps.  Cisco doesn't seem to cause the same problem.

   

  Doug

   

  From: gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On 
Behalf Of Timothy J. Parker
  Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2008 12:38 PM
  To: gptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  Subject: [gptalk] Re: Group Policies and long login times.

   

  Thanks Doug for the link. Does this just need to be set on the clients and 
when they attempt to talk to the server over TCP it will just respond or do I 
need to set this on the DCs also? 

   

  Tim

   

    ----- Original Message ----- 

    From: Doug & Katie Neely 

    To: gptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 

    Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2008 10:30 AM

    Subject: [gptalk] Re: Group Policies and long login times.

     

    Here is one of the things we have found to cause slow logons in our 
organization:

    http://support.microsoft.com/kb/244474

     

    Doug

     

    From: gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On 
Behalf Of Timothy J. Parker
    Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2008 6:05 AM
    To: gptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
    Subject: [gptalk] Group Policies and long login times.

     

    I previously posted a question on the newsgroups and thought I would bring 
it here as I haven't gotten a good answer yet and it "sort of" involves Group 
policy. I don't think that is my total problem, but need to get my head around 
this problem and figure out what I might be able to do to fix it (if anything). 

     

    We have 2 actual offices where the majority of our employees are located. 
But we also have currently 3 remote locations where there is a "random" 
employee (there are 3-4 that go between the offices). These users have laptops 
so they can move freely as needed. They all connect over a VPN connection back 
to our main office. 

     

    The agency users roaming profiles and they had My Documents set up to be 
redirected to a server ( I am tweaking the location but it appears to be fine 
overall). I have added a new GPO since I got here for myself currently to 
redirect my Desktop. I haven't touched Application data as of yet. 

     

    But when either I or anyone else logs in remotely it seems to take forever 
(in some cases 20+ minutes). One of the "answers" I got when I inquired about 
whether I might have something set up wrong in regards to these redirects as I 
thought by doing that I would be helping to speed up the process of logging 
in/out. Was that it still copies the files back and forth (sync) with the login.

     

    We have the users save stuff either on Network shares or my Documents. I am 
thinking that MyDocuments is a bad place to store stuff, even though its 
redirected? My end goal is to have very little, if any, user data on the actual 
laptop, for archival and security purposes (health care info is what we deal 
with). 

     

    Thoughts? Are my policies causing issues? 

     

    TIA. 

     

    Previously Posted on MS Newsgroups...

    I am trying to figure out if I missed something when this on our 
    network. I have a couple new laptop users that I just turned loose and 
    I am trying to install a printer for one remotely. The logon time is 
    taking forever. I have my desktop and mydocuments folders being 
    redirected. Shouldn't that speed up the logins? Or am I missing 
    something with how this works? 

    The only thing I haven't redirected yet is Application Data. Thoughts? 

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