I see what you're saying and it's quite feasible that DNS information is being cached, but a logoff/logon script won't cure the slow login.
What pitfalls are there to permanently disabling the NLA service? I've just read an article on Vista - apparently NLA has been 'dramatically improved' in this version of Windows - is this Microsoft's way of admitting a problem in XP and prior?
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by: RobWillPosted on 2007-03-29 at 12:36:15ID: 18819137
Sounds like the machines are retaining the old DNS server information. Is that possible? Restarting the NLA service would likely reset that, so it is possible. Are they shutting down their laptops, or just going into stand-by? Shutting down should force re-assignment.
Using the wrong DNS or even having another as the alternative will cause very slow logons.
Short term solution might be to create a batch file for the user's to put on their desktop to restart NLA, but they would still have that initial slow logon
net stop "Network Location Awareness (NLA)"
net start "Network Location Awareness (NLA)"
exit