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From: Linda W on 29 Jun 2010 23:00
I don't know about the program delays, but the long time
delay for the Win7 users sounds like it is copying the profile
from your PDC to the user's workstation the first time.

YES -- win7 is inordinately slow copying profiles. I've
had it take 45 minutes just to log out.


But it would take a long time the first time while it downloaded
their profile to their workstation.

On subsequent logins, everything is already local, so login should
go much faster.

It's considered a standard 'microsoft' feature and I also
need to solve the similar problem of it taking too long to
synchronize at logoff -- when it tries to synchronize the
server and workstation profiles.

It takes 'forever'....and there's no way for me to know if
it has hung or not -- one time that I let it go, it finished
after 45 minutes of slow (<100K) synchronization activity.

That's about 1/1000th of my network bandwidth!

MS suggest having small profiles and/or preloading
users' profiles on their workstation to minimize the
'first logon' to a domain.

I.e. they suggest making poor use of the domain synchronization
feature!

If you find a solution, would be interested in finding out...
My next step is to hit up the windows forums, but I rarely get
answer there from anyone who knows anything, so I dread bothering
to ask.

-linda

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From: Tom H. Lautenbacher on 30 Jun 2010 11:20
I do not think that it is neither intended by MS nor normal to take so long.

I am using roaming profiles in a network with Vista64Business clients.
Although the users (mainly image processing work on a professional level)
tend to have rather huge user profiles (100MB-2 GB is normal, the max what I
had seen was 32GB), those login/logouts are actually speedy compared to the
Win7-64-pro userprofile that I have just freshly created and that is only a
few kilobytes in size.

A second thing is that the problem concerns only the initial creation of the
Win7 profile; it takes approx. 40 minutes). All subsequent logins/logouts
are very fast and take approx. only 10-20 seconds.
The comparison of those values shows that it is more but just an delay
because of the creation of some kilobytes of files.

The third thing is that I am having the same problem with programs that I
start. Programs that are installed locally on the client! When I am starting
them for the first time, I am having a delay of 5-10 Minutes until the
program starts. The subsequent times I start the program, it starts
instantly.

I am guessing that the problem has something to do with DNS or other
network-layer issues. Or maybe it is the Client searching for something on
the Samba server that is not existing?? It seems like the workstation Is
sending some query to samba and then waits ages for a timeout or something.
There is almost no network traffic the time that I am waiting....


Tom

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