One of the most common complaints I hear about Group Policy is that it make the log on slow… Well.. I have been using the Windows Developer Preview of Windows 8 for a while now and I have only just discovered a cool new feature that might just help address this issue.
When you run a GPRESULT report on a computer you will now show the the time it take to process the individual components of Group Policy so you can much more easily determine what is making your computer run “SLOW”… If you notice under the “Component Status” section of the GPResult report it now lists the “Time Taken” to process the core Group Policy Infrastructure and each of the extensions. Now you can tell if it is actually group policy and/or one of the many, many, many, many…. many… setting you apply to your computer that is slowing down your computer start up…
TIP: Clicking on the blue date time will give you the “Processing Details” window.
While I was at TechEd New Zealand 2010 I was asked to step into Jeremy Moskowitz shoes at the last minute as he had been quarantined in hospital with suspected swine flu. So with very little preparation I hobbled together a troubleshooting session based on his slide deck and a few of my own tips…
Lilia Gutnik from the Group Policy Team at Microsoft (a.k.a. @superlilia ) recently recorded some video’s with Adam Bomb from TechNet Edge. This video shows a cool new Group Policy troubleshooting tool called GPLogview which is a very useful to decipher those very long and complicated group policy event log’s that Windows give you out of the box.
For more information check out Group Policy Team Blog Article at GPLogView and you can download the tool from from Microsoft Download Center at GPLogView
One of the most common complaints I hear about Group Policy is that it make the log on slow… Well.. I have been using the Windows Developer Preview of Windows 8 for a while now and I have only just discovered a cool new feature that might just help address this issue. 
