MacOS - Startup time

BenIdrissi
New Contributor II

Hi,

Our current Macs are AD bound. I would like to hear if some of you have measured, how long the startup time is? from turning on the Mac to logged in as the user?

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sshort
Valued Contributor

I've never timed it, but it's certainly longer than if it were just a local user. Aside from a user being on-network and connected to ethernet, you can make the startup/login time a little faster if you're deploying a configuration profile that sets the cached mobile user account settings. Example: disable background syncing at login or logout, or excluding items from being synced with the user's home folder on the AD server.

sshort
Valued Contributor

Update: I rebooted my machine and had my colleagues test their's for funzies.

It took anywhere from 55 - 70 seconds from entering the FileVault password to reach the desktop.

BenIdrissi
New Contributor II

@sshort thanks for replying - Same here! tested twice and it took me 70 -75 seconds