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tadhgclifford240
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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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ryanquiggin
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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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