Hey guys

We recently switch our folder redirection to a DFS server and now we have users experiencing "Trying to Connect to domain.local

and I don't think its an error more just a visual message but is there anything we can do to disable or fix the issue? We have Windows 7 Clients w/ Office 2010 and Windows 8 Clients w/ Office 2013 both experiencing it when the Click on "Open" or "Save in the application.

Hi,

I think it is caused that Office consider the \\domain.com\root\folder is a place like an internet location (which is normal to me that Office does not know about DFS) and I assume it is the default behavior of Office for displaying "connect to xxx" while opening or saving files from/to an internet location. 

I confirmed with Office engineer about disabling it but there is no such option in Office. You could post a thread to Office forum for further information about it:

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/office/en-US/home?category=officeitpro