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Matt
Asked: 2012-08-09 15:37:13 +0800 CST

Login hangs at "Applying Group Policy Environment Policy"

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Several users are reporting to the helpdesk that logins hang at the following stage:

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What is happening at this point? I have searched extensively but can't find what this refers to. I have also run several GPResults and can't find anything relevant. The workstations are all Windows 7 x86, our DCs are Windows Server 2008R2.

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  1. I don't think anyone is going to be able to answer this without more information.

    A few tools that will help you figure this out:

    Sysinternals Process Monitor -> Options -> Enable Boot Logging

    Reboot. Now you can evaluate that resulting ProcMon file, looking at the timestamps and looking for where the huge pause was. What was the system doing when that long wait started?

    You can use Xperf to do a detailed boot trace as well:

    http://blogs.technet.com/b/askpfeplat/archive/2012/06/25/becoming-an-xperf-xpert-the-slow-boot-case-of-the-nettcpportsharing-and-nla-services.aspx

    You can also enable verbose logging of Group Policy Processing:

    http://blogs.technet.com/b/askds/archive/2008/07/18/enabling-group-policy-preferences-debug-logging-using-the-rsat.aspx

    Using these tools is probably the only way to begin to figure out what is causing this slow boot time.

    Edit: Here is a fourth verbose logging method for you to look at:

    http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc775423(v=ws.10).aspx

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