Wow, that is interesting.  We're currently Novell, but what I described is how 
we're planning on doing it after migrating to AD and Win7 on the desktops.

Joe Heaton
ITB - Windows Server Support

From: Bob Free [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, March 09, 2012 12:08 PM
To: Heaton, Joseph@DFG; NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: (homedrive)

We had a PSS PFE onsite recently for an AD engagement and we were discussing 
slow boots during a break in the action and he brought up something I had never 
heard of before.

I was always under the assumption that we had what is known as Fast Logon 
Optimization on our XP systems that allows GPOs to process asynchronously in 
the background.

He told us that it is disabled in our environment because we use the profile 
settings to map homeDir and specify login script.

Basically anything that is set on the Profile tab in ADUC is considered legacy 
NT behavior and disables logon optimization. I had heard before that roaming 
profiles or software installation policies disabled it but this was news to me. 
I played around with my account on an old XP box and it rang true, never got 
around to looking into it further or on WIN7.

FWIW, YMMV :)



From: Heaton, Joseph@DFG 
[mailto:[email protected]]<mailto:[mailto:[email protected]]>
Sent: Friday, March 09, 2012 10:07 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: (homedrive)

We simply populate the Profile Tab, and allow Windows to create the actual 
folder w/ appropriate rights.

Joe Heaton
ITB - Windows Server Support

From: David Lum [mailto:[email protected]]<mailto:[mailto:[email protected]]>
Sent: Friday, March 09, 2012 9:18 AM
To: Heaton, Joseph@DFG; NT System Admin Issues
Subject: H: (homedrive)

Do you guys create individual shares for each user, or do something different?
David Lum
Systems Engineer // NWEATM
Office 503.548.5229 // Cell (voice/text) 503.267.9764


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