New Sage 100 2020 Advanced Installation - Poor Performance

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We're in the process of upgrading from Sage 100 2017 Standard to Sage 100 2020, and while I'm not clear on the details (the accounting guys take care of that) based on our license we apparently were able to acquire Sage 100 2020 Advanced free of charge, so we did. However, during testing I'm finding that the creation of direct deposit stub PDF files on our file server via Paperless Office is taking far longer than it used to: 30 seconds per stub, as opposed to about 0.33 seconds per stub with Sage 100 2017 Standard. Switching the destination to a local path on the server changes the time to about 10 seconds per stub, which is still way too long for our needs. The server is a VM, but I've double-checked everything (CPU, memory, disk, network) and can't find anything amiss. It's configured the same way as all our other VMs, and is hosted on a server that's not doing much (and is the only VM on that particular server). I adjusted CPU allocation way upward just to see if it would make any difference, but it didn't. In addition I'm noticing Payroll Tax Calculation and direct deposit stub printing taking longer as well, though not as badly. There is no virus scan program on the server, or any other programs on the server for that matter. Anyone have any ideas by any chance? Thank you for your help!