After successful testing initially within Networks and Infrastructure and then on the designated test workstations within the SLS Service Groups and with no issues reported we have started rolling out some Microsoft Hotfixes that will hopefully improve startup and login times.

This update should be installed to the workstation whilst a user is logged in, but will not be applied until the workstation has rebooted.  Users who are local administrators will be informed that there are new updates to install.

The hotfixes currently being distributed to all MD7 machines are:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2524478
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2510636
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2582112

In addition to this, we are distributing a couple of hotfixes to MD7 laptops to try and ensure a couple of potential issues with offline files and file synchronisation do not occur.

These are:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2561708
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2523887