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Workstation OS: Windows 7

Domain Controller OS: Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard

I have measured the following with a stop watch:

  1. When the laptop is in a workgroup, it takes just 17 second to shut down.
  2. when I added the same laptop to a domain (corp.abc.com), now it takes 1 minutes and 22 second to shut down. (it just shows the shutting down screen)

Why does the shutdown time increase so much when a workstation is added to a domain?

Note: I have not made any changes on the laptop, nor added any software. I have done the above testing because users start complaining about this after adding their laptop to the domain and takes a long time to shut down. It's happening to all laptops that run Windows 7.

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  • no there is no logoff scripts / gpo's as well as we don't have roaming profiles.
    – Param
    Jul 27, 2012 at 11:18
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    Take a look in the error logs on the client machines, specifically group policy processing, this should provide you more insight.
    – Alex Berry
    Jul 27, 2012 at 11:26

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You probably have some GPOs that are applying to the client that are doing something like syncing offline files, running logoff/shutdown items, etc.

Run rsop.msc on the client in question to see what policies are applying and the difference should become obvious.

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