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Saving in MS Office takes long when editing offline files

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We've many users that use the Offline Files service to take files with their them on their laptops while they are not connected to the company network. It works good while they are not connected to any network, but as soon as they are connected to a public network (WiFi) from which they have Interne but no (SMB) access to the file servers the files are hosted on in the company, saving files in Word or Excel (2016) takes several seconds (>20 seconds and more). It displays the "Saving" dialog with the cancel button and sits there for up to several minutes.

A few casual google searches did not return any lead as to why this behaves as it does or how to fix it.

Did anyone experience a similar behavior?

Is there anything I can do about it, because like this, offline files is basically useless.

We're running Windows 10 on the laptops, the servers run Windows Server 2012 R2.

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