Macbook and AD domain - performance issues?

[XiJ]

Hi All

 

Just wonding if I can pick people's brains! We have 3 users with Macbooks that BIND to an AD Server (Win2k16). The macbook are now in a state where they will login to the server and mount the home drive automatically. We have a login script that runs and mounts several other shares from the Windows server.

When the user is off site the macbook allows login (cached version) and once logged in they can launch the VPN which also runs a script to mount drives.

 

However, at least one user is complaining loudly of performance issues generally. Slow start up, overheating, crashes, fans spinning up loudly, generally slow response of the system. The other users seem less affected but still grumble a bit.

 

The one thing we did do is copy the entire lcoal profile to the domain profile on the Macbook. We suspect some hard links to some apps etc are still present and one of our options is to perform a clean install of OSX and start with a clean profile. Another option is to go back to a standalone macbook and some sort of auto filesync software. Do any of you have any recommendations?

 

So the question is have any of you had general performance issues with Mac's laptops on a Windows domain? Network speeds (data transfer) have no real issues? And secondly filesync recommendations?

 

The Macbook in quuestion are relatively new (less than 2 years) SSD-based models - but I don't have current exact spec

 

Thanks

 

J