bad performance GPO's

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Patrick de Man

I have windows 2000 AD with windowsXp SP1 clients. I have
made 3 policies in the AD. When I logon with an XP client
it takes about 2 minutes. There is a window with the
message "Applying Computer Settings". Even if I only use
the default domain policy of Microsoft I get the same
message. If I restart the client and wait about 2 minutes
before logging on, then the performance is very well. It
seems that the first time after a reboot of a client
there is a difficulty with starting something, or there
is a communication problem. We have checked DNS and this
is ok. On the Internet I have read that a lot of people
had problems like this, but all there solutions are
something about DNS. Our DNS is okay, so have anybody
else a clue. Please let me know asap.
 
Typically XP logons are under 30 seconds. If you're running any policies
that push software or startup scripts to your machines you may want to look
at the following article.

305293 Description of the Windows XP Professional Fast Logon Optimization
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=305293

Also if DNS was a problem the system would hang on "Preparing Network
Connections"
 
If I only set one domain policy with one setting, this
already gives a delay of about 2 minutes. I don't use the
push software policies or whatever. I already found out
that with netdiag.exe that there are some Kerberos
problems. The test of Kerberos is failed. Do you know
what the problem is.
 
I have the same issues. This is happening in mutiple locations and with
different domains. The logon takes about 2 - 3 minutes even when using only
the default domain policy. This seems to only be affecting XP workstations.
This used to work fine and started acting up a few weeks ago.

I starting to suspect on of the patches that has come out in the last 2
months.
 
I ran the GPO Management report and it shows this from one of my XP
Workstations.

Group Policy Infrastructure failed due to the error listed below.

The RPC server is unavailable.

Note: Due to the GP Core failure, none of the other Group Policy components
processed their policy. Consequently, status information for the other
components is not available.
 
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