Viewing "This PC" Devices and Drives when connected through a Terminal Services connection

Greetings, [long-time listener, first time caller]
I am a service technician who remotely logs into customer servers using terminal services. I am accessing systems around the globe. I regularly need to move files from my local system to the customer system, so I always connect with my local
(client) drives.
A feature of Windows Server 2012 R2 drives me insane. I use the good old "[Windows] + e" Shortcut to bring up the file explorer. It displays "This PC". It displays both the server's local volumes and \\tsclient\
volumes by name and also waits to display the information until it can get volume information from the terminal service drives.
The end result is that:
1) The Devices and Drives display is delayed by 5 to 10 seconds while it gets volume data for the network drives and
2) The drives I care about, the customer's local drives, are displayed AFTER the The Terminal Services drives AND Server-side removable storage.
Am I missing a way to display the networked devices separately? This is extremely annoying. It wastes my time and displays items illogically.
I know there are third party apps that can help (OldNewExplorer). But they are not an option for me.
[Modified on 2014.11.07] I have attached a screenshot of the way it looks in Windows Server 2012.
Thank you

Hi,
Thank you for posting in Windows Server Forum.
From your description it seems that local drive redirection is not working. For this please check whether drive redirection is enabled on server side and whether any group policy is not set to disallow the client drive redirection. Check on domain controller
that the 'Default Domain policy" - 'Do not allow drive redirection' was disabled.
Hope it helps!
Thanks.
Dharmesh Solanki
TechNet Community Support

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