Workstation OS: Windows 7
Domain Controller OS: Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard
I have measured the following with a stop watch:
- When the laptop is in a workgroup, it takes just 17 second to shut down.
- 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.