We're in the process of migrating home drives from networked storage on one site to networked storage on another site and want to measure the current and future performance of accessing files.
The idea is to write a batch file that a user can run and it will output the performance results. The process would be:
- Start time measurement
- Open test .doc file (from current/future networked storage as specified)
- Stop time measurement when Word opens and the file has appropriately downloaded (even if not fully downloaded)
- Write out time taken
I'm struggling to work out how to tell when Word has opened enough to begin to display the file and therefore stop the timer. Can anyone suggest how to do this (or similarly for .pdfs), or tell me if this is entirely the wrong approach to measuring performance for home drive end users?