following on from AMNE meeting and Windows 10

[KK20]

Does anyone have a link to the way people get their default profile down to size? That is the final stumbling block for me. W10 1607 education for me, no black screens, startmenu setup, XML importing for taskbar and tiles. Now to get the logon times down. We are sat on 50 seconds first logon and 25 subsequent (roaming profiles). Our default profile is 165mb (audit mode, copyprofile = true). I intend to copy the default profile to netlogon\default user.v6 but first I need to get it down to size.

 

tips? links? Someone said there was a link on here but ive searched for "default user" "default profile" "profile size" but only found others asking questions....

 

edit: the longest portion of my logon is "preparing windows". I can actually ctrl-alt-del at this point and get to a desktop (start menu doesn't work at this point though), there are no pop up screens awaiting attention, no obvious issues and after 50 seconds the start menu become functional (as per my XML). GPOs (disabling) doesn't seem to make a difference to the "preparing windows" phase. I have removed provisioned & user apps on the image (we have a few remaining such as photos, calculator, edge and 3dbuilder).

Edited December 2, 2016 by KK20

[tango]

How do you manage to get your default profile down to 165 Mb ?

 

We create a gold image using MDT then deploy with SCCM and set copyprofile=true in unattend.xml

We use 1 profile per lab , created on 1 PC , copied to server then scripted to copy round each PC as the Default User profile. Most them are 400 or 500 Mb plus and logging on takes much longer than 50 seconds.

I'd love to eventually be able to get the whole process running much quicker & smoothly for students & staff.

 

Any advice or guides etc welcome.

 

Thanks in advance

 

tango

[KK20]

My latest default user profile is 88Mb and logon times (roaming, core2duo, 2Gb and cheap SSD) is between 30 and 40 seconds - very similar to our W7 so i'm happy now. Our staff have local profiles, initial logon is 30-40 seconds with subsequent about 8 seconds). Combine with fast boot and it will go from "off" to desktop in under 30 seconds (BIOS, PXE check and typing time included)

 

best advice is use something like "treesize" to see which folders are eating up the space (look in appdata\local\Microsoft\windows - plenty of bloat in there. For starters I removed "onedrive" folder - we don't use it and it has been uninstalled from provisioned apps. Second I deleted all the databases EXCEPT the TileDataLayer database(start menu screws up if you delete this). There are LOADS of cache files in the local\Microsoft folder - comms cache, webcache, icon cache etc, all these are pointless as they are rebuild on first profile creation anyway (so they are just bloat that are copied and reinitialised). There is 10Mb in the IE suggested sites database alone! (in the bin you go)

Edited December 7, 2016 by KK20