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DFS Share and Azure Files - DFS Name Access Extremely Slow when WebClient service Running in Windows
We just did a large on premises file share migration to Azure Files (serverless), and implemented a DFS namespace server (Windows 2022 with root consolidation) so all existing file share paths would ...
CL981 Did you have any luck with this?
We are experiencing an issue where the excel app is taking an age to browser for and open files and i'm wondering if its linked or you found a cause for the issue!
Thanks
We ended up disabling the WebClient service on the Win10 clients and that was the workaround. It wasn't our first choice but it has not caused any issues in our environment.
Note, the service must be disabled, not just stopped, in order for the delay to go awaywork.
Good luck.