{"id":748,"date":"2012-04-16T22:37:06","date_gmt":"2012-04-16T20:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.netexpertise.eu\/en\/?p=748"},"modified":"2021-04-06T22:26:47","modified_gmt":"2021-04-06T20:26:47","slug":"slow-opening-office-files","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.netexpertise.eu\/en\/systems\/windows\/slow-opening-office-files.html","title":{"rendered":"Slow Opening of Office Files through a Network"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Your Excel files on remote networks take up to 2 minutes to load? You think there&#8217;s something wrong with your VPN or you need to tune Office? Not at all, here&#8217;s how to load your files in just a few seconds!<br>&nbsp;<br>I couldn&#8217;t understand why my remote files were so slow to open from a Windows shared folder, Excel in particular but many others as well like Word or PDF files.<br>Till I opened files hosted on a Windows 2008 Server from a Windows 7 machine.<br>&nbsp;<br>Here&#8217;s the trick:<br>Performance issues, in particular latency on WAN networks arise mostly with the SMB 1.0 protocol. SMB2 was introduced by Microsoft in Windows Vista and enhanced in Windows 7 and 2008 Server later on.<br><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Server_Message_Block#SMB2\">SMB2<\/a> is less &#8220;chatty&#8221;, sends requests before the previous response is received, and allows larger block sizes, among other improvements.<br>&nbsp;<br>At the end of the day, the most important is the gain while opening remote files: it is SO much faster!<br>Only constraint, both client and server must support SMB2. 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