We have a lot of remote users with laptops that are rarely connected to the corporate network. When logging into one of these laptops it takes between 30sec and 2min before the little SEP shield appears in the system tray. If users try to launch other applications before the SEP shield appears they complain that their system locks up, likely because SEP is still loading and they're trying to do too much at once.

These laptops are very high-end machines (2.4GHz, 4GB RAM, 80 Intel SSD hard drive) so I don't think it's a resource issue. It seems to me that SEP is trying to contact the management server and delays starting up until some timeout period is reached. Anyone know what is really causing this and how I can get the SEP client to load quicker on startup?

Again, this only seems to happen if the PC isn't connected to our network.