03-17-2020, 12:18 AM
I remember this one time at my buddy's office. We had a server setup humming along fine. Then users started complaining about logoffs taking ages. Like, coffee-break long. Turned out some policy was looping through old scripts. Everyone's machine would hang, waiting for that last bit to finish.
But yeah, it happens when policies push updates or sync stuff during shutdown. Or network hiccups make it wait for domain controllers. Hmmm, even antivirus scans kicking in at the wrong moment. You check the event logs first, see if errors pop up around logoff time.
We poked around the GP settings. Disabled a couple unnecessary extensions. That sped things up quick. If it's scripts hanging, you tweak their timeouts. Or move heavy policies to logon instead.
And don't forget checking for roaming profiles bloating things. They load slow on exit too. You might need to slim those down.
Or if it's a big domain, spread out your DCs better. Balances the load.
We fixed it by auditing the whole policy chain. Removed redundancies. Users were happy, no more endless waits.
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