Roaming profile users experience slow logons on Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 client computers

Microsoft has just released a new hotfix to address an issue with slow logon performance when you use AppData folder redirection.

Consider the following scenario in a network environment:

• You configure users to use roaming profiles to log on to a client computer that is running Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2.
• You redirect the %AppData%\Roaming folder to a network share.
• You enable the Do not automatically make redirected folders available offline Group Policy setting on the client computer.
• You enable both of the following Group Policy settings for the %AppData%\Roaming folder:
  - Administratively assigned offline files
  - Turn on economical application of administratively assigned Offline Files

This configuration specifies that only new files or folders in the %AppData%\Roaming folder are synchronized during the logon process.

In this scenario, the users encounter slow logon behavior on the client computer.

The hotfix can be downloaded from the following location: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/981830