Personal Settings

[Mark]

Hey Everyone,

Alot of computers are taking ages to logon. The part that takes the longest
is "personal settings". What is the best way to monitor what is loading and
configuring when a users logs onto a windows xp domain computer? I am GPO
settings, computer settings and so on. Basically everything that happens.

Cheers,

Mark

 

[Holz]

Hey Everyone,

Alot of computers are taking ages to logon. The part that takes the
longest is "personal settings". What is the best way to monitor what
is loading and configuring when a users logs onto a windows xp domain
computer? I am GPO settings, computer settings and so on. Basically
everything that happens.

Cheers,

Please describe your network environment.

 

[Mark]

Hey Holz,

Our environment consist of 12 servers with two DC's. These two DC's act as
File Servers as well to 450 computers and 1200 users. One server experience
high paging and high disk queue problems. We are currently in the process of
migrating these servers to virtual enviroment but seperating the DC and File
Servers. All our desktops have 100Mbit and 1Gbit backbone.

I understand our servers may relate to this problem but I am curious to know
what happens when a user logs on to a computer. Are there any tools out there
to determine this?

Cheers,

Mark

 

[Holz]

Our environment consist of 12 servers with two DC's. These two DC's
act as File Servers as well to 450 computers and 1200 users. One
server experience high paging and high disk queue problems. We are
currently in the process of migrating these servers to virtual
enviroment but seperating the DC and File Servers. All our desktops
have 100Mbit and 1Gbit backbone.

My first question would be in regards to your DNS settings.
How is client DNS set in the network card configuration? Does the
primary DNS entry point to the DC?
As far as GPO, how many do you have?
Might also want to post in the windows server newsgroup.

 

[Mark]

Hey,

I have 2 GPO applying for computers and 2 for users.

The client DNS is applied by DHCP and is pointing to our DC's.

Cheers,

Mark