Hi alli have 4 test servers setup currently, all on server 2008.when i reboot the servers they take an age to come backup again, as they stay at applying users settings for at least 5 mins!!what would be causing them to apply the settings this length of time?

The problems which you have mentioned above seems to be with the DNS. It would be a great if you can recheck your DNS server and the DNS settings on the the other servers. If you have one DNS server then please try to point your member servers to the existing DNS server. This is just a basic Troubleshooting tipin case after applying the above solution doesn't works please let us know.Thanks and Hope it works Syed Khairuddin

yea ur righti resetup dns again on my dc's and now all is working perfectly!!!thanks for your help!!

Did a great job !!!! Cheers Syed Khairuddin