Windows 7 Not liking  a Windows Server 2003 Domain?
Hey The situation is I have been given the job to upgrade a Computer Room at a school to Windows 7 Professional. I have done a fresh install on one computer and added it to the Active Directory Domain, but when an account with a roaming profile logs in, 1 they cannot view their My Documents Folder (Which is usually Mounted as H: Drive) and 2 It takes about 2 minutes to login where as Windows XP took 20 seconds (95% of the time gathering Security and Local Policy Settings). From what I can tell it is a problem at the server end. Here is the list of servers that it access: Domain Controller / DNS / DHCP server - Windows Server 2003 File Storage Server - Windows Server 2000 Am I right in saying Windows 7 doesn't like the Windows 2000 storage server? I am planning on upgrading the Domain Controller to Windows Server 2008 R2 in the coming weeks, will this possibly fix the long logon issue? TIA AndrewRegards Andrew
September 10th, 2009 8:21am

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September 11th, 2009 10:51am

Hi, The roaming profile of Windows 7 is much larger than Windows 7. Additionally the log on sessions are changed in Windows 7. Before user logs on, drivers will be loaded, as well as certain system services. This is session 0. Then when a user logs on, the session number is 1. In Windows XP, the processes are running at the same time. Therefore it will consume more time to log on with Windows 7 roaming profile. Regarding the My Document problem, does it work if you set the storage to the Windows Server 2003 computer? Arthur Xie - MSFT
September 11th, 2009 1:47pm

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