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Applying Computer Settings takes several minutes for many domain users

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Our help desk is constantly getting complaints that it takes several minutes from the time the user logs in to the time they get to their desktop.  This also happens on my workstation. 

I have tried moving my computer into a OU with no policies applied and it still takes a long time.  I enabled logging and have done a packet capture.  I do not see any errors in the event log or in the userenv.log file.  Using sysprosoft's Policy Log Viewer to view my userenv.log file, I can see that policy processing starts out normal.  In the first fraction of a second, it performs the ping to the server, and determines that it is a fast link.  The next entry occurs 86 seconds later, and it identifies "network name is example.domain.com".  The domain controller it's contacting is in the same domain and site as my workstation. 

During this logging process, I was performing a packet capture, and do not see anything unusual going on, like DHCP still trying to acquire an address or any communication to one of our other sites. 

As another test, I assigned my workstation a static IP address with DNS pointing to our internal DNS servers.  I still get the long delay.

Roaming profiles are not involved, and our clients recieve IP addressing from DHCP with DNS pointing to internal DNS servers.  Our Domain Controllers point to internal DNS servers as well.

This issue seems to have started sometime after SP3 was deployed.  Management has sprung for a load of new computers, thinking it's going to solve the slowdown, but it does not.  Any ideas as to why computer policy takes so long to process? 

Thanks,
Joel


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