A team member asked for help in decreasing Windows logon time and requested any blogs or recommendations related to this issue. @member advised that the logon process for physical devices may be affected by AppX packages, but shared tips for optimizing logon duration in VDI environments. ControlUp’s Analyze Logon Duration script can also be used for physical devices. Team members shared several links and resources for optimizing logon duration and dealing with AppX packages. Logon time is a key metric in VDI environments and AppX load times can be a bottleneck.
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Good day
Anyone worked on a Windows Logon time process to get it down ?
Dont see any blogs yet
Our resident expert on login duration is @member although mostly from a VDI pov, but I’m sure plenty of things apply to physical desktops. Are they company managed?
@member please share and blogs are guide ill try to replicate and apply to physical desktop
Yes they are managed why?
Because often slowness is partially due to login scripts, profiles etc. something that an unmanaged device might not even have
Well I already started at looking at old GPO and login scripts and we have removed them
I have also built a script that looks at the startup items and we found a lot that is not needed and remove them
I’m still not satisfied with what I’m seeing and would’ve love to see or hear what other people are doing or and recommendations or what the VDi guys are doing , like you said perhaps I can apply that to end user devices as well
Hi Team, it would be awesome if logon duration was a short simple topic for Windows but add-on’s, utilizing different technologies and just (IMHO) poor decisions from Microsoft have left it in a state of chaos.
Sadly, for physical devices I don’t have a ton of information to share because how those devices get policy is very different from VDI — and, usually, the logon process is a one-time thing. So I guess my first question is, can you help define "logon".
Typically, once you logon to a machine a profile is created and the machine gets a mark saying that said profile is local or cached so subsequent logons are faster. Are your users experiencing a slow "first" logon to the machine, or are subsequent logons slow as well?
I predict the largest culprit to logon performance issues with physical devices will be AppX packages. I do have articles here about them but not a lot of information on how to "fix" them, sadly.
https://www.controlup.com/resources/blog/appx-packages-slowing-you-down/
https://www.controlup.com/resources/blog/logon-duration-research-appx-packages/
The biggest wins in reducing logon duration in VDI (IMHO):
- Faster/newer CPU’s. MHz matters in logon duration as it’s predominantly a single threaded process
- Optimize the OS. Remove/disable as much ‘cruft’ as possible. In VDI world we have tools like "VMOST", "Citrix Optimizer" or even Microsoft "Virtual Desktop Optimization Tool"
- Evaluate the effect of Group Policy and other logon processes. Best to do this with Analyze Logon Duration script from ControlUp (it can be run on physical devices too, you just need to ensure all the pre-req’s are setup)
https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX224676/citrix-optimizer-tool
https://www.controlup.com/script-library-posts/analyze-logon-duration/
https://support.controlup.com/docs/enable-auditing-for-analyze-logon-duration-script
We have logon times as one of our key metrics for VDI and AppX load times is a real bottle neck. The logon analyzer was so helpful in identifying the issue. Not really found any solution for our particular setup with non-persistent VDI. We tried personalyzing the appx folders and registry stores, but this broke the start menu. Laptops shouldn’t have so much impact from AppX load times with persistent profiles, but interested if they are causing slow logon times.
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