User Logon Process - User initialization (Phase 3) Duration (Alert)

Summary

Helps to identify a user whose logon process – phase 3 (User-specific Initialization) was very slow.

During this phase network connections are restored and profile settings, such as fonts and screen colors, are loaded. Also, if this is the first time this profile is being used, some extra initialization is applied. The default profile is created, first time use settings are applied for the shell (Explorer), Internet Explorer, Office (particularly Outlook) and any other application that uses Active Setup.

Configuration

Overridable parameters:

• IntervalSeconds – monitoring interval (default = 300)

• InfoThreshold – duration is seconds (default = 120)

• WarningThreshold – duration in seconds (default = 180)

• CriticalThreshold – duration in seconds (default = 240)

Causes

Reasons for a slow logon phase can be:

• issues with restoring the network connection(s),

• a corrupted profile, or

• using this profile on the server for the first time (Active Setup hasn't been applied yet).