Re: Windows SBS 2003 R2 + Vista Business

James,

Take a look at the following post from Susan Bradley http://msmvps.com/blogs/bradley/archive/2007/04/04/vista-slow-after-sp2-installed.aspx

I think it will help you solve your problem

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Costas


"James Hurrell" <user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:OOwIWZkPIHA.4196@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hello All,

I have read a lot of information about integrating Vista into a Windows SBS 2003 network, however, I wonder if someone has a definitive list of patches, network config and settings that need changing as I have been tearing my hair out with this for some time.

Here's my setup:

1 Dell Poweredge 1900 Quad Core Zeon with 500GB RAID 1 drives with SBS 2003 R2 Standard
7 PC's - all Vista Business, all new from Dell with Vista as OEM
Exchange not enabled on SBS (it's not installed), all less than 4 months old

Server has one NIC and sits behind a NAT router (the default gateway). DHCP is switched off on the router and router DNS points to SBS server.

NAT router is compatible as I ran this checker: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/using/tools/igd/default.mspx (all passed).

Of the items listed in the Rip Curl update (http://blogs.technet.com/sbs/archive/2007/02/09/sbs-vista-client-update-ripcurl-now-available.aspx) I've done the following: 1 and 3 (I omitted 2 as we don't use Exchange and 4-6 as we don't have the Premium version).

I was able to get clients to join the domain using the ConnectComputer wizard and used the move user settings to transfer users' old pre-domain profiles to the domain profiles. This all worked fine.

I implemented My documents folder re-direction and this worked well.

Printers and network drives were also working great (implemented auto drive mapping via the logon script).

However, after a couple of days of seemingly OK usage, everything started to slow down horribly to the point where it became unusable:

- horribly slow client network logons (sat at "Welcome" or "Please wait" for an age).
- impossible or very slow to open network files located on the server
- redirected Documents unresponsive
- etc. etc.

Internet browsing, is however, completely unaffected.

I have now removed the server (i just switched it off) and am using an old XP Pro box and the DHCP option on the NAT router to do exactly the same thing and it's been working fine - but it's not what we want...SBS is what we want!

So what is going wrong? It's obviously a mismatch between Vista and Windows SBS 2003 somewhere, but what? Does anyone have any ideas or help?

Thanks.

.

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