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WVD slow connection to local machine/C drive
Hi, I am seeing very slow speeds when browsing and opening files/folders on my local C drive when connected to a windows virtual desktop. When in file explorer on the virtual desktop, it takes up to ...
Has anyone been able to look into this for me? tadhgclifford240
- Did you find a solution for this? I’m Experiencing the same issues.
Rg035 The connection/browsing speed between local PC and session host VM has increased considerably since WVD went into general release. I am assuming that the improvement is down to the control plane for WVD being created in my region (North Europe). During public preview, the control plane was in East US 2 and my session host VMs were in North Europe, which introduced latency.
Rg035 @tadhgclifford240
We had this issue and it turned out to be the mapped drives on the local PC slowly passing through to the WVD session and therefore slowing down the loading of the local drives on the WVD host.
You can disable this using drivestoredirect:s: switch on the hostpool via PS
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows-server/remote/remote-desktop-services/clients/rdp-files
