Hello I have a number of Windows 7 machines that connect to a 2003 Native Active Directory Domain. All users have a Home folder defined in active directory which reside on a fileserver. All these machines are on network links with very high latency & very low bandwidth. Does anyone know of a way to prevent the AD home drive from mapping at user logon, or alternativeley how to configure a threshold / timeout. Reason being logon is taking around 3 minutes if I permit access to the file server by firewall, or 8 minutes if I deny access to fileserver via firewall. I suspect the Home folder is the main problem with these long login times. I'm already familiar with the slow link detection GPO which is working well at preventing roaming profiles etc, it's just the home folder that's the issue I think. ThanksDouks

Hi, Thanks for posting in Microsoft TechNet Forum. Based on my understanding, if you do not want to use home folder, you could disable it in the profile. To achieve this goal, it would be configured in Windows server; I suggest you post at Windows server forum for help: Windows Server Category Also, you could refer to the following article: Ignore Active Directory Home folder Alex Zhao TechNet Subscriber Support in forum If you have any feedback on our support, please contact tnmff@microsoft.com.Please remember to click Mark as Answer on the post that helps you, and to click Unmark as Answer if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.

I do want to use home folder as defined in AD in most scenarios, it's just for a certain few devices I want to disable it. I wonder if there is a registry key that can achieve this since it's not possible with GPO, other than to change if in a TS environment. What I need is to prevent it for a standard windows logon. Thanks Douks

Hi, If you enable the following Group Policy, just try to disable it: Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\System\Logon\Always wait for the network at computer startup and logon As a result, Windows 7 does not wait for the network to be fully initialized at startup and logon. This would result in shorter logon times. Alex Zhao TechNet Subscriber Support in forum If you have any feedback on our support, please contact tnmff@microsoft.com.Please remember to click Mark as Answer on the post that helps you, and to click Unmark as Answer if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.

Hi Alex Yes this is already disabled in my environment. I thought it might help the home folder delay, but it doesn't. (it does shorten the logon time because of not processing gpo's etc though.) ThanksDouks

Hi, For this issue, this may not be modified in windows 7 client, it is recommended to ask for help in Window server forum, they would get a workaround for you: Windows Server Forum Thank you for your understanding and cooperation. Alex Zhao TechNet Subscriber Support in forum If you have any feedback on our support, please contact tnmff@microsoft.com. Please remember to click “Mark as Answer” on the post that helps you, and to click “Unmark as Answer” if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.