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Poor enterprise laptop performance (Any Tips?)
Our laptop users are have a productivity rendering experience everyday as they work on their laptop. They have been putting up with it and they are quite used to it as days go by, but I was just curious what other companies configurations look like or what we might be doing wrong? A few traits:
-We are a mixed Novell/AD environment
-We are a mixed 2003/2008 server environment (2003 domain/forest functional level)
-We use folder redirection (User Desktop, My Documents) for our laptop users
-We use roaming profiles for our laptop users and VDI users
-We use PGP Whole Disk Encryption on ALL of our enterprise laptops
-We use Vipre Enterprise Virus Protection/Firewall on all enterprise computers/VDI
-We have not yet implemented Wireless, so all of our laptops still use ethernet
A few things we have tried to make the experience a little better:
-Changing the network provider order to "Microsoft Windows Network, Microsoft Terminal Services, NetWare Services, VMWare View SSO Nework Provider, Web Client Network", which made our Office applications not take a long time to respond and finally come up. +1
-Toggle UNC Path Filter On/Off through Novell Client Properties with no visible gain. +0
-Changing firewall settings (Vipre) +0
So I guess my question is, are their any known conflicts in our setup, a minor tweak that I am missing in Novell/AD, or a common setup that I am unaware of that should be used on ALL laptops? If any more key information is needed, please let me know.
-We are a mixed Novell/AD environment
-We are a mixed 2003/2008 server environment (2003 domain/forest functional level)
-We use folder redirection (User Desktop, My Documents) for our laptop users
-We use roaming profiles for our laptop users and VDI users
-We use PGP Whole Disk Encryption on ALL of our enterprise laptops
-We use Vipre Enterprise Virus Protection/Firewall on all enterprise computers/VDI
-We have not yet implemented Wireless, so all of our laptops still use ethernet
A few things we have tried to make the experience a little better:
-Changing the network provider order to "Microsoft Windows Network, Microsoft Terminal Services, NetWare Services, VMWare View SSO Nework Provider, Web Client Network", which made our Office applications not take a long time to respond and finally come up. +1
-Toggle UNC Path Filter On/Off through Novell Client Properties with no visible gain. +0
-Changing firewall settings (Vipre) +0
So I guess my question is, are their any known conflicts in our setup, a minor tweak that I am missing in Novell/AD, or a common setup that I am unaware of that should be used on ALL laptops? If any more key information is needed, please let me know.
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Thanks for all the information. There are a few things on that list that I wanted to give a try but was not sure if there would be an outcome. I will try to chisel our profiles to make them a bit smaller by getting rid of those temp files and see what else we can do with the info provided until we convert to 100% AD sometime in the near future.
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http://support.microsoft.com/kb/328607
The profiles are most likely the problem for log in / log out time. But what about all around lag moving from and to applications, especially PGP WDE (which I didn't know was a resource intensive application when the disk is done being encrypted). What exactly does the 'pgpwflt' do in the provider order?