Hello All, We've just built a Windows 2008 server. One thing we've noticed is when we logoff a from a Windows 2008 server we see the pop-up message that says "loging off..." and "please wait for the User Profile Service.." We want to be able to suppress these messages upon logoff on a Windows 2008 server. Does anybody knows if there is a way to do this? Thanks for the help.

Hi, As far as I know, there are no policies to suppress the status messages on logon/logoff (probably because they are sometimes useful for troubleshooting). The only settings that I know of affect logon messages and they are in Computer Configuration\Windows Settings\Security Settings\Local Policies\Security Options and they are prefixed with "Interactive Logon" Alternatively there are a few other group policy settings that may help with a few things like requiring ctrl-alt-del to logon and timing out a session when a system is shut down, but nothing that really suppresses status messages. Are you encountering a specific problem that is motivating the suppression of these messages? -- Mike Burr

Hi Mike, No we do not have any problems at the moment. We just want to suppress these messages purely for comestic reason. Thanks.

Hi, Please take a look at this thread: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winserverTS/thread/361b5901-1098-4379-b1a0-6227b447afce Hope it helps. Regards, Bruce