Hello everyone,
So I thought I would throw this one out there. I am running a
network home directory environment. With a mixture of wired and
wireless clients. Which is working fine. That is all other
applications except for MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint. The problem
is that when you launch a MS app for the first login on a computer it
takes around 10 minutes to startup. If I logout and log back in, no
problem Office launches in under 5 seconds. Nice! But if I move to
another computer the whole process needs to be repeated taking
another 10 minutes. I have already moved "dofonts" from the
Microsoft Office/Office folder as well as moved the Fonts to /Library/
Fonts. Any suggestions? The issue is it will hang on "Configuring
Office Components" mainly Excel not loading fonts. Although it is
more predominant on wireless systems (taking up to 15 min.) than on
wired (taking up to 2 min). Evidently configuring office components
is dumping a fair amount of information to the network home directory
(during this phase it seems to write 137 files totaling 51.9MB with
seemingly random names i.e. "REGEDOANHNFPLzqkkkkkk--------"). Also
of note it will replicate this information for EACH system that a
user logs into. For example a user will log into a system and it
will copy 51MB into ~/Library/Preferences/Microsoft/, if that same
user logs into another system it will copy another set of files
totaling 51MB for a grand total of 102MB. I don't see this happen
when MS Office is used with a local account. I have tried all the
preferences that I can think of and the issue is still reoccurring.
Of note this issue will only occur if I login to a different system
each time. If I login to the same system performance is amazing. I
just can't afford to have the 51.9MB being written each time a user
logs into a different computer especially if they are on a wireless
connection.
