Maximizer 9 Very Slow on Terminal Services

For those who might be interested, I seem to have solved my problem.

A little background. We have two Maximizer installs, one for the main office and one for the remote offices. We are on one single domain, with a domain controller running Terminal Server at one of the remote locations.

To fix the problem, I set up the Terminal Server Group Policy to force all users, regardless of which servers provide home and profile shares, to use the Terminal Services profile and home directories located on the terminal server. Once that was done, speeds were right up.

What I suspect is happening is that Maximizer must be using either the profile or home paths (or possibly both) in some way for communicating with the Pervasive gateway engine. If those directories are located on the other side of the VPN tunnel, it's likely that it's either using the remote Pervasive engine or possibly not using it at all, in which case performance is absolutely horrific.

I suspect that Maximizer may, very stupidly, be using one or the other of these paths for temporary storage when transferring records (my bets are on Home, as even the profile directory is going to be loaded on to the Terminal Server). Perhaps it's some interaction between the two Maximizer installs, since those users whose profiles are stored on the Terminal Server don't have the speed issues.

At any rate, it is solved, and though my situation may be a bit out of the norm, I hope at some point someone finds some use. It's been one heckuva problem to solve.