RSAT - AD slow on Windows 7
Running Windows 7 (both 64-bit and 32-bit) of the RC (build 7100), I downloaded the Remote Server Admin Tools pack and then went into Add/Remove > Turn Windows Features On/Off and installed the components for Remote Server Admin Tools. This allows you to use Active Directory in Windows 7.Running on a domain environment that is at a Windows 2003 platform.....When working with Active Directory, it is considerably slower than when running on Vista or XP...and its slower at everything.When you first expand the domain, it takes half a minute, when you go to get properties on someone, takes half a minute, if you are trying to Find something in the domain, it takes half a minute for the Find box to come up.Not a major inconvenience, more of an annoyance.
September 17th, 2009 9:06pm

Hi, May I know which snap-in or feature of RSAT you are using? Meanwhile, please also provide us more detail information about your network and collect the following information for our further research. Use Problem Steps Recorder to reproduce a problem ======================================== 1. Click the Start button and type psr (without quotations) in Search box, then right click Run as Administrator to open Problem Steps Recorder. 2. Click Start Record. 3. Repeat operations of encountering this issue. 4. Click Stop Record, and then save it as Problem.zip files. 5. Please upload Problem.zip to SkyDrive and share its URL with us. More information about Problem Steps Recorder: Problem Steps Recorder Thanks. Nicholas Li - MSFT
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September 23rd, 2009 2:02pm

Hi,This is my problem:http://cid-498b09b817b21664.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/.Public/problem.zipTake a look at the time when I click rigth bottom to Find... 8 seconds!Thanks,
September 23rd, 2009 5:41pm

Hi, Thank you for collecting the information. I tried this on lab and find this could not be reproduced. At this time, please try the following to see if we can narrow down the issue: 1. Please ensure that the account you logged on with have permission to access the contents of AD. If possible, please try this with you domain administrator account. 2. Please completely remove RSAT in Windows 7 and try the following one: Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 7 3. Boot the system to Clean Boot environment to check how it works: Clean boot ================= 1) Click the Start Button type "msconfig" (without quotation marks) in the Search box, and then press Enter. Note: If prompted, please click Continue on the User Account Control (UAC) window. 2) Click the "Services" tab, check the "Hide All Microsoft Services" box and click "Disable All" (if it is not gray). 3) Click the "Startup" tab, click "Disable All" and click "OK". Then, restart the computer. When the "System Configuration Utility" window appears, please check the "Don't show this message or launch the System Configuration Utility when Windows starts" box and click OK. NOTE: we can go back to normal boot by running msconfig again and checking on Normal Startup in the General tab. In the Clean Boot Environment, the third party services and applications are disabled, please check if the issue reoccurs at this time. If the problem does not occur, it indicates that the problem is related to one application or service we have disabled. You may use the MSCONFIG tool again to re-enable the disabled item one by one to find out the culprit. Hope this helps. Thanks. Nicholas Li - MSFT
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September 24th, 2009 1:19pm

Nicholas,Sorry...Windows7 isstill slow.
September 30th, 2009 10:38pm

We are experiencing this issue in my organization as well. I wonder if it isn't a compatibility thing between RSAT and Server 2k3, since RSAT was written with Server 2k8 in mind. I do not see much else out there on this issue, but for us early adaptors that is not very unusual. One thing that helped the reponse time for us was to disable the IIS admin serivce on our boxes. Still slow, but not as slow.
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December 9th, 2009 7:39pm

Same issue here. Setup: Windows 7 Enterprise 32 bit OS, 2003 native Active Directory with four local DCs to choose from, windows logon account is a member of domain admins Symptoms: When navigating within ADUC, if I right-click or double-click an object, I wait approximately 12 seconds for a response. After the mmc returns to being responsive, navigation will work normally for about 45 seconds and the problem returns. Each time I encounter this, I have found a coinciding entry in my LOCAL Security event logs: Event ID 4624 and Event ID 4671. It would appear that I'm re-requesting a token every minute from this machine. If I login to the same Windows 7 computer as a different domain admin, I can duplicate the results. If I login with my credentials on a 2003 Terminal Server, I do not experience these problems. I have also ruled out DNS in this situation by selecting my DC by IP instead of name within the mmc. I use a similar program for AD management called Hyena and it experiences the same symptoms. I have attempted to modify local group policy kerberos setting per http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd560670%28WS.10%29.aspx but this did not help. I also tried disabling the IIS Admin service as suggested by the above post, but this did not change my results. I have tested LDAP response time via vbscript and found it to be faster from my Windows 7 desktop computer than the 2003 Terminal Server! The RSAT installation referenced above is the one I am using. I hope that someone can help. This delay accumulates to lots of lost time throughout my day as I administer our AD environment. I have searched google with as many terms as I can think of and found nothing useful. I have attacked this from the perspective that my frequent logon events are the true sign of the problem, but I can't seem to find any real solution.
June 22nd, 2010 12:11am

I had been having the same issues for months. I tried running the AD users and computers as myself with full domain admin rights and it was quite slow. I then right clicked and ran as the administrator account and it ran like a charm. I usually like to lock down the administrator account, not sure why this works but it seems to make it much faster. Good luck.
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July 8th, 2010 5:47pm

We have exactly the same problems! We have a long delay on all changes we do in the RSAT. Sometimes the MMC hung for 30 seconds. In the Event log I can't see some errors or warnings, only in the Security log I get always the 4624 and 4672 events on every request I do in the MMC. We use the MMC with "Runas" with the Domain Admin account on Win7 X64. Did anyone figured this out?
September 14th, 2010 12:06pm

We are experiencing the same issue. We have 2008 R2 server core domain controllers but our domain functional level is still Server 2003. Everyone here that has the RSAT tools install on Windows 7 computers is experiencing a 6-8 second pause when we right click anything in ADUC. The slowness/pause happens in all the tools. Because we use server core on our DCs we rely on the RSAT tools and the pause/delay is very annoying. We are about to raise our domain functional level to 2008 R2 but I'm not sure that will help this issue.
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September 21st, 2010 1:58pm

We are experiencing the same issue. We have 2008 R2 server core domain controllers but our domain functional level is still Server 2003. Everyone here that has the RSAT tools install on Windows 7 computers is experiencing a 6-8 second pause when we right click anything in ADUC. The slowness/pause happens in all the tools. Because we use server core on our DCs we rely on the RSAT tools and the pause/delay is very annoying. We recently raised our domain and forest functional level to 2008 R2 and the problem still persists.
September 21st, 2010 8:55pm

We are also experiencing this issue. Domain controllers are on Servers 2003, issue was only noticed when we upgraded our client pc's to Windows 7 and now navigating in AD Users and Computers is very slow. Any new ideas?
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October 13th, 2010 3:30pm

We have the same issue, but i found a workaround. I disabled netbios over TCP/IP on all the adapters in my workstation. After that ADUC responded normal. I don't know why this is a problem but found that de pc query's netbios names with the FQDN instead of the netbios name. 26767 14:13:43 5-11-2010 157.9361371 192.168.200.2 192.168.200.255 NbtNs NbtNs:Query Request for dc001.xxx.xxx <0x1C> Domain Controllers {UDP:2, IPv4:1} 26771 14:13:44 5-11-2010 158.7005487 192.168.200.2 192.168.200.255 NbtNs NbtNs:Query Request for dc001.xxx.xxx <0x1C> Domain Controllers {UDP:2, IPv4:1} 26776 14:13:45 5-11-2010 159.4648932 192.168.200.2 192.168.200.255 NbtNs NbtNs:Query Request for dc001.xxx.xxx <0x1C> Domain Controllers {UDP:2, IPv4:1}
November 5th, 2010 10:28am

Thanks Biense van Es, Your workaround seems to work. I'm with you in that I dont know why that is a problem. I'll keep digging and update you all if I find anything out. Thanks again for posting your work around.
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November 17th, 2010 11:45am

Thanks Biense van Es, Your workaround seems to work. A friend of mine and I dug into this and discovered that by taking WINS out of our DHCP options we got the same results. We had planned on cleaning up our WINS anyways so this really worked for us. So I re-enabled netbios over TCP/IP on all my adapters and then release/renewed my IP after taking WINS out of the DHCP. My ADUC responds normal and so far no other issues with any of the RSAT tools.
November 17th, 2010 11:51am

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