Single Server Roaming profile Storage, Print Services, File Shares - Slowdown

Printers are indeed restricted by departmental groupings in AD. 

Hey Guys,I wanted to ask for recommendations on how to alleviate a problem I'm currently having. I've inherited this situation, so looking for advice.I have a single WS2008 Storage server handling file shares, print services and roaming profiles storage for roughly 80 users.
Specs: PowerVault NX300, Xeon E5506 2.13Ghz, 32GB Ram, 80GB Raid 1, 6TB Raid 5, Teamed Dual 1GB Nics.Network: 10GB backbone and 1GB uplinks.RDS is running on a newly built WS2012 Cluster with RAID 10 Virtual SAN storage and teamed quad 1GB nics. The problem is with RDS logoffs around 530pm daily. File shares and print services becomes very slow. I realize that it has to do with the amount of traffic that the file server is processing during that time and will usually lasts about 30mins.Questions:
My thought for the print services was to build a new WS2012 VM on the...
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