DFS - Slow Browsing with Windows XP
In this blog, I have discussed the root cause of the issue where users are experiencing very slow network speed when connecting to network drive (mapping to DFS root namespace). Please note that this finding is totally based on our IT setup and it may not be the reason/cause for your issue. Alright, we wanted to do following: Virtualize and upgrade file servers (DFS) to Windows Server 2008 Standard R2 Virtualize and upgrade one physical 2003 domain controllers to Windows Server 2008 Standard R2 In this process, we created new domain controller and for some reason we needed to shut it down. So we shut it down. Next day, some users running Windows XP started to experience delays when they click on network drive letter (for example Z:\). It started to take time and sometime Windows Explorer stuck/hang before it populate all the folders. We tried few things together with my Manager to fix the issue but we could not solve the problem. Later, we read few articles/blogs about DFS archit...