[tech] [ucc] Minutes of Meeting on Tuesday, 19th May 2015

gozzarda at ucc.asn.au gozzarda at ucc.asn.au
Tue May 19 19:46:06 AWST 2015


Oh right... I knew I had forgotten something...

> ###Desktops
> ...
> - Windows machines are degrading fairly quickly, log in times are 
> looong

This is in theory not a bug. I found a fix to the issue we had been 
having with temporary profiles on Windows machines. I have applied this 
fix to all our Windows desktops. The fix required the removal of cached 
logins from the machines. As such anyone logging into a machine they 
have not logged into in the last week or so will have to wait for their 
profile to load. In the case of some people with very large profiles 
(myself included, I don't even know when I put four different OS ISOs in 
my Windows homedir) this takes a very long time. In theory all user 
profiles should now be cached properly and subsequent logins will be 
much faster.

For those interested, the temporary profiles issue was a result of 
Windows remembering Mylah as the home directory for cached user 
profiles, instead of its replacement Molmol. When Windows failed to 
access Mylah, it created a temporary profile. Clearing cached profiles 
properly (instead of just deleting local files as it seems people have 
tried in the past) causes Windows to reacquire these details on next 
login.

Cheers,
Gozz


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