Last week I blogged about the Microsoft Optimized Desktop concept and how you can use the Proof of Concept (POC) kit to create a demo environment with tools like SCCM, Windows 7 and Office 2010.
If you follow the concept and use the user state virtualization part of it, you will use two components to redirect (all) user folders like the Desktop, Documents, Favorites and so on to a share. These components are:
- Windows 7
- Desktop Folder Redirection
The concept furthermore introduces office 2010.
But when you leave out the Office 2010 part the concept talks about, and use Office 2003 instead, you’re going to run into troubles. Performance troubles to be precise. Recently I found out that there’s a bug identified that get’s triggered when you use the following 3 products / solutions:
- Windows 7
- Desktop Folder Redirection
- Office 2003
What actually happens is that when you open the ‘save as’ or ‘open’ dialog box and click the locations drop down list, the Office 2003 program becomes unresponsive. When you use a network monitor like wireshark, you’ll notice that the machine in question starts sending out Netbios broadcasts. The trigger for this behavior is your redirected desktop folder. Because this folder resides on the network, when you open the locations drop down list, Office 2003 wants to show you a list of computers and servers in the neighbourhood. This is done by sending out a netbios broadcast when it’s not able to find a WINS server. And let’s be honest, who wants to use WINS or even Netbios these days?
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