When I rebooted my desktop today (for the first time in several weeks), I noticed it now takes several minutes for me to login. The first time it happened, I suspected the login process hung so I resorted to a "hard" reboot (i.e. by holding down the power button). However, the subsequent attempt also took a very long time -- but I walked away from the computer for a while and when I returned the login process had eventually completed and I saw my familiar items on the desktop.
However, I started seeing errors about exceeding my profile storage space. Note that I have a group policy configured to restrict profile storage to 250 MB. My current profile size is 5,795,030 (> 5GB).
I now see all files in my Documents folder being counted in the profile size calculation. However, I'm using Folder Redirection (via group policy) to store my documents on a file server -- and, consequently, these files were previously not counted as part of my profile.
I recently installed the latest round of patches via Windows Update (actually a local WSUS server) and I suspect the issue might be related to the following:
MS16-072: Security update for Group Policy: June 14, 2016
From <https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3163622>
Also note that after applying the updates, I used the script in the following post to identify GPOs that needed to be "tweaked" to grant "Domain Computers" Readpermission (and subsequently made the change to the GPOs):
MS16-072 – Known Issue – Use PowerShell to Check GPOs
Has anyone else seen a similar issue with their profiles suddenly ballooning in size?
It seems strange that something like this could "slip through the cracks" -- but given the fiasco with Windows 10 and roaming profiles (ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4), it is also quite possible that this configuration is something that is not included in the test plan.