Bandwidth question w/ deployment

[Jeff Senter]

We are looking at upgrade about 70,000 users worldwide from Outlook 2000
to 2003. We were looking at using the cached mode by default.

The network people are concerned that as we upgrade groups of people the
.OST generation process will saturate the bandwidth of the connections
both in the datacenter leading to the Excahnge servers and in the area
the outlook upgrade took place.

Does anyone know of any good documention that covers this case?

Thanks.

Jeff

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

You might want to ask this in microsoft.public.exchange.admin.

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After furious head scratching, Jeff Senter asked:

| We are looking at upgrade about 70,000 users worldwide from Outlook
| 2000 to 2003. We were looking at using the cached mode by default.
|
| The network people are concerned that as we upgrade groups of people
| the .OST generation process will saturate the bandwidth of the
| connections both in the datacenter leading to the Excahnge servers
| and in the area the outlook upgrade took place.
|
| Does anyone know of any good documention that covers this case?
|
| Thanks.
|
| Jeff

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

The article at http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HA011402591033.aspx discusses "Options for staging a Cached Exchange Mode deployment."

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