Timeline for find out time taken by individual group policy computer startup scripts
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| Sep 14, 2015 at 14:29 | comment | added | Henno Vermeulen | Ok thank you. This is also what I have learned from a few google searches, but I found it impossible to look up what exactly these settings are. It looks like the SBS-specific client-side extension is installed by copying a .dll file so I also figured that it would probably work fine for existing machines bu may need to be temporarily enabled again when installing a new computer to the domain. | |
| Sep 14, 2015 at 13:34 | comment | added | Patrick | ClientAgent.vbs installs a clientside extension (.MSI) to allow additional settings to be configured on the system. This is specific to SBS and I've never actually bothered to look up what the settings are. Personally I don't think you need them and suspect you will find there is no harm from disabling this policy. What you may find is that a new computer needs the MSI running once to allow these extensions to run, but I see no need for it to be run on every startup. If you do just run it once when you build the machine, you won't need the policy. | |
| Sep 14, 2015 at 13:02 | comment | added | Henno Vermeulen | After turning off this policy, startup scripts take only about one second and the computer connected through VPN starts up very quickly. I can't find good information on whether it's safe to disable this policy. I'll just keep it turned off until we run in some kind of trouble... | |
| Sep 14, 2015 at 10:23 | comment | added | Henno Vermeulen | This was very helpful and answers my question. Using this I found that ClientAgent.vbs of "Windows SBS CSE Policy" takes up most of the time, namely 2 x 10s on our local machine. This looks like a network timeout, but further investigating this is another question. One addition to the blog: you need to download the Windows Performance Toolkit, but for Windows 8 this is now part of the "Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit" download. Instead of "xperf view" it now uses Windows Performance Analyzer (WPA). | |
| Sep 14, 2015 at 10:16 | vote | accept | Henno Vermeulen | ||
| Sep 11, 2015 at 15:43 | history | answered | Patrick | CC BY-SA 3.0 |