[27580] in resnet
speeding up Windows 7 VMware linked-clone log on times
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brian Gibson)
Mon Apr 23 15:22:20 2012
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Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2012 15:20:15 -0400
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From: Brian Gibson <gibson_brian@wheatoncollege.edu>
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Hi all,
Anyone out there using VMware View's linked clone non-persistent
desktops? Everything works well with our Windows 7 pool but since the
user doesn't have a local profile when they log in the wait for creating
it is long (about 78 seconds). Anyone know of a way to speed things up?
We tried ForensIT's Profile Manager 2.1 and it 'kinda' helped but not
enough (knocked it down to about 60 seconds). What I would love to be
able to do is map the new user to a local profile we already have on the
master image. When a user already has a profile the time for the desktop
to load is 11 seconds.
Another approach we could use in XP was use Microsoft's CopyProfile.exe
to preload everyone's profile but I can't seem to find a tool like that
for Windows 7 and that approach will make our images crazy-big.
We also moved our domain group policies into local group policies and I
thought for sure that would speed things up but it only knocked off
about 3 seconds :-(
I'd rather not store the user's profiles on a server, it'd be just
another thing to manage.
Thanks!
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Brian Gibson
Systems Administrator
Wheaton College
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