Roaming Profiles and redirected folders

We have been using roaming profiles and redirected folders for awhile and we
are noticing some serious slowness when a person goes to log into their
machines. After you type in your password the message saying, "Loading your
personal settings" is on the screen for a good 4-5 minutes before it changes
to "Applying your personal settings". What can I do to troubleshoot this?
Does it have anything to do with my roaming profiles or redirected folder
setup? I created 3 shares on my server. One share is
\\server_name\Profiles\ for my roaming profiles. I have the offline setting
on this share set to, "Files or programs from the share will not be
available offline". My second share is \\server_name\desktops for my
desktops. I have the offline settings for this set to, "Only the files and
programs that users specify will be available offline." My third share is
\\server_name\MyDocs for my redirected My Documents. The offline settings
for this share are also set to, "Only the files and programs that users
specify will be available offline." I see that there is another offline
option that states, "All files and programs that users open from the share
will be automatically available offline" it also has a check box saying,
"Optimized for performance". Should I be using that setting instead for all
3 of my shares?

I think I have read somewhere that this could be a DNS issue also, but I
don't really think that is the case.

Thanks
-Scott


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