Windows login with domain user takes a long time

[Electrode927]

Hello. I just got into the field as an onsite network technician. I'm at a business where there are about 15-20 end users running windows 7 professional on a network with a windows 2008r2 server that plays the role of DHCP and DNS server as well as some shared storage. The site had previously used roaming profiles, but as business increased and more data had to be moved across the network, congestion occurred in full force. I have changed the GPOs that apply to the users to keep their data locally. AD still manages the profiles. This change has caused any login attempts to take 20-35 minutes. During any login, the server maxes out disk usage. What could be causing these things? Thank you for anything you can suggest.

 

[harry_r_s]

Did you tested 1 user at a time? what is the situation.
And get info of how much data is going through when it is in congestion state.
And the hardware specs ?
And check reverting is giving thing back?

 

[Alabalcho]

What happens if you define a new user on a new workstation?

 

[Electrode927]

To followup on this significantly later than I should have, the profiles were set to roaming. The users were storing massive amounts of data on their "desktops" to the server. Terrible configuration.

 

[SgtScream]

List the steps in detail, you took to disable roaming profiles please.

 

[Alabalcho]

List the steps in detail, you took to disable roaming profiles please.

Is this a question you're asking for your own problem, or trying to help the OP (who helped himself)?

 

[SgtScream]

Is this a question you're asking for your own problem, or trying to help the OP (who helped himself)?

We won't know how to solve his problem, unless we know exactly what he did. Because clearly roaming profiles hasn't been disabled.