After reading this additional info I'm inclined to think that the issue lies
with the server that hosts the roaming profiles (is it also the PDC
emulator?) .
Are there any error messages in the log on this server?
During a brutally slow event are you able to ping that server from a pc via
IP, and also then are you able to ping via its servername, and both with the
same speeds as during a normal period?
Are there any 3rd party applications on that server which we can disable?
The amount of times ive seen these slowdown and lockup a server is crazy.
Coraleigh
"Microman" <Microman@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:337CC584-AF42-4B5A-B9E6-B1903917AF94@microsoft.com...
> Hi,
>
> maybe I'm not describing it well. This is a problem which manifests itself
> as the name changing. We lose the ability to communicate with the server,
> but
> we do not lose the tcp/ip connection. I can still connect to the pc by VNC
> and see the name has changed, but the PCs access to server resources is
> brutally slow.
>
> When we log in it displays the correct name, and is fine for anything from
> 10 minutes to a couple of hours and then we click on start and see the
> name
> displayed at the top of the start menyu has changed from the display name
> to
> the login name and we have lost the ability to get Outlook to respond.
> Usually the first hint we get is that Outlook is not responding and that
> makes us click on start to check the name.
>
> On one of the servers this is also normally followed by a message when we
> try to reboot which tells me the sytem cannot save the roanming profile.
> Th
> eodd thing ios that I can still VNC to the machine so I suspect the
> network
> card is fine.
>
> Thanks for reading so far.
>
> Tom
>
> "Coraleigh Miller" wrote:
>
>> Hi Microman,
>>
>> You could try enabling your domains default Group Policy "remove user
>> name
>> from start menu" found in User Configuration \ Administrative Templates \
>> Start Menu and Taskbar
>>
>> I am not sure however what this would have to do with your
>> outlook-exchange
>> slowdown issue. Are there any other speed or perhaps dns issues on your
>> network?
>>
>> Coraleigh Miller
>>
>> "Microman" <Microman@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:993E109F-9663-4EBC-A9F2-028951B3FFFF@microsoft.com...
>> > This is causing me problems on two different server2003 sbs servers.
>> > after
>> > a
>> > while, no idea how long it takes but something like an hour or two,
>> > when
>> > you
>> > click on Start, the name at the top has gone from "John Doe [Widgets
>> > Incorporated]" to "johnd" where johnd is the user's logon name.
>> >
>> > At first logon, the John Doe [Widgets Incorporated] is displayed at the
>> > top
>> > of the start menu, but after a while, it has changed and the Outllok
>> > connection to the Exchange server is slow to the point of being
>> > unuseable.
>> > Log off and back on cures all of this for a while.
>> >
>> > I have not yet installed SP2 as I am trying to read through ALL of the
>> > many
>> > issues and work arounds for SP2.
>> >
>> > The problem is not unique to a user or pc but some suffer more than
>> > others.
>> >
>> > Thanks for reading,
>> >
>> > Tom
>> >
>>
>>
>>