I have recently graduated from college and have been thrusted into a win2003 server environment that I am not too prepared for. My previous experience is in desktop support but now I am admin for 80+ computers (not very many but still a sizable load for a newb). I don't want to sound ungrateful b/c this is what I love but I would have felt better if there was someone around to help. The guy I was supposed to work with, set up the server then went back to Japan where he is from.

I feel the setup right now is pretty much like a house of cards. One problem I am having is when people log into their user acct it takes a really long time to get through the "loading your personal settings" screen, it doesn't do it if you log on locally. Alot people just log on as local admin b/c the last guy told whoever the pwd. That makes me uneasy so i'm gonna change the local admin pwd(which will prolly piss everyone off) but if i'm going to do that i would like to fix that logon problem.

I changed all the IP addresses to static going through the TCP/IP settings on the individual computers(is there a faster way to do that?). So it's not an IP conflict causing the problem.
I feel like it may have something to do with the way the active directory was set up but I'm not sure.

Is there anyone can lend me some advice. If the problem sounds vauge let me know and try to provide more info.

Thanks