Please wait for the user profile service Posted on December 5, 2011 by Imran Rashid Reading Time: < 1 minuteWhen restarting a windows server, you find it hangs on ‘Please wait for the user profile service’. A quick fix: 1) Reboot the server into safe mode only. 2) Once logged in 3) Reboot the server back into normal mode.
Add the Administrators group to roaming user profiles Posted on October 29, 2010 by Imran Rashid Reading Time: < 1 minute1) Open group policy 2) Navigate to Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > System > User Profiles and enable ‘Add the administrators security group to roaming user profiles’