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tadhgclifford240
Copper Contributor
Jul 24, 2019

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 ...
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Rg035
Copper Contributor
Sep 30, 2019
Did you find a solution for this? I’m Experiencing the same issues.
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    tadhgclifford240
    Copper Contributor
    Nov 08, 2019

    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.

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    ryanquiggin
    Copper Contributor
    Oct 04, 2019

    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

     

     

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      Rg035
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      Oct 06, 2019

      ryanquiggin 

       

      Thanks, added the property and it did speed things up!

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