Laptop users out of office

We have an issue with our laptop users when the leave the office. I have
them setup to use a local profile (no profile location set in AD) instead of
the roaming profile that our desktop users have. This works great in house
when on our network. However, when they are no longer on our network it will
take 5 mins (almost exactly) to load their desktop after inputting their
password. Does anyone know of a way to fix this or another method of having
them setup. I can set them as roaming profiles but then they have to wait
for the network time out a click the roaming profile can not be found... use
local copy message.

Thanks.

Possibly the fast logon feature has been disabled:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/305293/en-us

Doug Sherman
MCSE, MCSA, MCP+I, MVP

"Tim" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> We have an issue with our laptop users when the leave the office. I have
> them setup to use a local profile (no profile location set in AD) instead
of
> the roaming profile that our desktop users have. This works great in
house
> when on our network. However, when they are no longer on our network it
will
> take 5 mins (almost exactly) to load their desktop after inputting their
> password. Does anyone know of a way to fix this or another method of
having
> them setup. I can set them as roaming profiles but then they have to wait
> for the network time out a click the roaming profile can not be found...
use
> local copy message.
>
> Thanks.
>
>

I found the answer. If you disable the webclient service you will not wait
to boot off the network.


"Tim" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> We have an issue with our laptop users when the leave the office. I have
> them setup to use a local profile (no profile location set in AD) instead
> of the roaming profile that our desktop users have. This works great in
> house when on our network. However, when they are no longer on our network
> it will take 5 mins (almost exactly) to load their desktop after inputting
> their password. Does anyone know of a way to fix this or another method
> of having them setup. I can set them as roaming profiles but then they
> have to wait for the network time out a click the roaming profile can not
> be found... use local copy message.
>
> Thanks.
>

Hmmm - this is a well documented issue, but I didn't think it would affect
logons with cached credentials . Thanks for the followup. See:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/832161/en-us

Doug Sherman
MCSE, MCSA, MCP+I, MVP

"Tim" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> I found the answer. If you disable the webclient service you will not
wait
> to boot off the network.
>
>
> "Tim" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> > We have an issue with our laptop users when the leave the office. I
have
> > them setup to use a local profile (no profile location set in AD)
instead
> > of the roaming profile that our desktop users have. This works great in
> > house when on our network. However, when they are no longer on our
network
> > it will take 5 mins (almost exactly) to load their desktop after
inputting
> > their password. Does anyone know of a way to fix this or another method
> > of having them setup. I can set them as roaming profiles but then they
> > have to wait for the network time out a click the roaming profile can
not
> > be found... use local copy message.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
>
>

Thanks for following up!

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Microsoft MVP - Windows Server - Directory Services
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