Network shares slow on 2008 and 2012 servers
Hi,
I don't have some specific error, but rather some observation. I have a SLA month contract with dozens of companies, taking care of over 100 Windows servers in different environments.
What I notice as a rule is very slow NETWORK DISCOVERY within all 2008 and 2012 server installations. On contrary, all (without exception) older server 2003 environments exhibit blazing fast network discovery.
Under "network discovery" I mean look and feel when either on SERVER or on CLIENT somebody clicks on "Network" in explorer and wants to browse the network.
In 2003 environments the network displays within 1 or 2 seconds...
...but in all 2008 or later environments, it takes at least 15 seconds and up to 1 minute to display all computers in network. They pop-up one by one slowly, as like it has all day long to finish the task.
Any idea why?
I don't have some specific error, but rather some observation. I have a SLA month contract with dozens of companies, taking care of over 100 Windows servers in different environments.
What I notice as a rule is very slow NETWORK DISCOVERY within all 2008 and 2012 server installations. On contrary, all (without exception) older server 2003 environments exhibit blazing fast network discovery.
Under "network discovery" I mean look and feel when either on SERVER or on CLIENT somebody clicks on "Network" in explorer and wants to browse the network.
In 2003 environments the network displays within 1 or 2 seconds...
...but in all 2008 or later environments, it takes at least 15 seconds and up to 1 minute to display all computers in network. They pop-up one by one slowly, as like it has all day long to finish the task.
Any idea why?
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Well, I HAD a habbit to turn off IPv6 in the past (on 2008 and newer systems), but I read somewhere on Technet that SBS must have IPv6 enabled to function properly, so I left it ON on all systems.
As all those are different systems, which were setup by dozens of different admins, I doubt it is an error in all systems. From my perspective it smells like default behavior, like bad design by MS, built-in into all 2008/Vista and newer systems.