Slow OOBE on windows 8.1 deployment

Question

Hi,
Our new windows 8.1 update 1 deployment takes over 8-9 minutes for proccessing the OOBE and user first boot/login.
It's a mui deployment with 33 languages . 
I've checked the setupact.log and found these 2 "lags" :
Location :  C:\Windows\Panther\UnattendGC (OOBE)
2014-08-13 08:22:10, Info                         [msoobe.exe] Calculated OOBE STARTUP
FLAGS: [0x00000000]
2014-08-13 08:22:14, Info                         [msoobe.exe] Processing
cache change notification for setting PRODUCTKEYSTATUS.
2014-08-13 08:37:56, Info                         [msoobe.exe] Successfully
notified UI language change
2014-08-13 08:37:56, Info                         [msoobe.exe] Processing cache change
notification for setting NOTIFYLANGUAGEDONE.
2014-08-13 08:37:56, Info                         [msoobe.exe] Posted cache change notification
for setting NOTIFYLANGUAGEDONE.
2014-08-13 08:37:56, Info                         [msoobe.exe] TASK:
End successfully running task NotifyUILanguageChange
2014-08-13 08:43:26, Info                         [msoobe.exe] Posted
cache change notification for setting AUDITMODE.
Also when I do the OOBE step without internet connection it only takes 5 minutes...

Answer 1

Hi,
In my opinion, the difference between internet connection yes or not is that domain policy push or not. The lag time should be used to push policy.
To identify my suppose, you can check the client policy status if there is any different between internet connection yes and not.
Roger Lu
TechNet Community Support