SMO 2012 Server Connection very slow until you run IE one time

Question

There seems to be an issue with SMO 2012 if the user has never run IE on the machine.

We have written a simple program that declares (but does not open) a connection with the following code

    Private Sub foo()

        Dim conn As New Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Common.ServerConnection

    End Sub

On multiple Server 2008r2 machines running Remote Desktop Services we have tested this code.  If a user has never run IE, this code consistently takes 10-15 seconds.  If the user runs IE once (they do not have to go through any of the setup wizard) and then closes IE, this code takes less than .5 seconds.

Can anyone explain why this is?

Is there any thing we can do in our software to fix the issue?  Currently we are asking our customers to run IE one time.

Thanks,

-Todd

Answer 1

Could you please report this issue to SQL Server  feedback https://connect.microsoft.com/SQLServer/Feedback

Please include additional details like

1) OS version

2)  SQL Server version, SQL tools version

3) is this issue reproducible on interactive desktop session / through RDP session only

Thanks

Sethu  Srinivasan  [MSFT]

SQL Server