Redirection causing Slow Login

[Caster Troy]

Hi All,
I have configured redirection on an OU in my Domain for the users that use terminal services from Thin Clients t5700 and login on Proliant DL580 G2 Servers. Reason for configuring redirection through Group Policy was that whenever the users used to log on their roaming profiles were copied on the local disk of the DL580 G2 eating up the space on the system disk. I have redirected the My Documents and Desktop Folders as they have almost all the user contents. After redirection the users are facing the problem of long duration for login on the servers. can anyone help me out with this problem. Also can anyone tell that where is the execution of the contents of redirected folders is carried out and is redirection causing the network to choke. any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks All.

[Igor Karasik]

It is known problem.
See for example
http://www.brianmadden.com/forum/tm.asp?m=18357
The hotfix 899409 is not available publicly. You can call Microsoft and they will provide the hotfix
See also http://jernstrom.org/site/print.php?news.150

[Ivan Ferreira]

After you tried the patch, verify also that the name resolution is working. Check you DNS server and WINS server if available.

[Tom Barnes_2]

i am not familiar with thin clients or windows ce (i assume), but i know that windows xp clients and server 2003 default to configuring redirected folders to use "offline files," which kinda defeats the purpose of using roaming profiles with folder redirection.
group policy can be used to remedy: user configuration, administrative templates, network/offline files, do not automatically make redirected folders available offline.

[Ruslan]

In my practies I make shared folder for My Docs with redirection GPO and exclude it from roaming profile
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;274443