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Question

Five minute long logontimes in windows 8.1 whilst in an AD

Jan 21, 2014 11:51PM PST

Using a windows 8.1 machine in an active directory environment (running a few logonscripts) it takes horribly long, up to five minutes to login. I've confirmed that the "Fast login" feature is enabled. I've confirmed that there are no GPO's enforcing "Wait for network at PC startup and user login". I've confirmed that the logonscripts are halted by 5 minutes before they are run. (Meaning that after 5 minutes of being logged in the PC runs the scripts to make faster loginprocesses.) I've noticed that the PC having this issue has a NIC which uses 3G, could it be that the primary NIC would be 3G, and would that affect the loading at login? The problem only occurs when the PC is unable to contact the network. (for example when the PC is at another site or the NIC is turned off). This happened while using Windows 7 as well, so I'm not sure that it is a w8.1 proprietary problem. Any help on where to troubleshoot is welcome, thanks in advance!

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AD? Back to the IT staff for that one.
Jan 21, 2014 11:55PM PST
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This might sound bad but...
Jan 22, 2014 2:41PM PST

I am the IT department, and I will look into that. Thanks Bob.

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The problem is with AD and you
Jan 22, 2014 12:32AM PST

logging in. I had a similar problem when trying to remote into my companies VPN. I use Junos Pulse to connect to my network which works fine but when I try to remote to my desktop it says it couldn't be found. It worked with Windows 8 but not Windows 8.1. I talked to my security team and they said they had to do something to allow WIndows 8.1 to connect to a desktop. So it could be a similar situation.