Best setup for use of laptop

[cecilh0544]

I travel a lot and find that when I connect to the organizations VPN that the
service is very slow. I know we have had to disable caching with Outlook and
that seems to be the slow issue. In addition when I was running an other
version of Outlook I had my laptop set up as described for a mobile user.

Would it be appropriate to have my network engineer set my laptop up as a
mobile computer or leave it as it is for connecting as a regular network
computer using the configurtion for that situation.

My major concrn is that I seem to be not synchronizing ve3ry effectively by
use of the send/recieve command.

Thanks,

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[Roady [MVP]]

What version of Outlook and Exchange are you using? If Outlook 2003 make
sure you turn ON caching. When you connect to an Exchange 2003 server
contact your e-mail admin about the possibilities of moving away from VPN
and implement RPC over HTTP.

--
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
www.howto-outlook.com

Tips of the month:
-FREE tool; QuickMail. Create new Outlook items anywhere from within Windows
-Properly back-up and restore your Outlook data

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I travel a lot and find that when I connect to the organizations VPN that
the
service is very slow. I know we have had to disable caching with Outlook
and
that seems to be the slow issue. In addition when I was running an other
version of Outlook I had my laptop set up as described for a mobile user.

Would it be appropriate to have my network engineer set my laptop up as a
mobile computer or leave it as it is for connecting as a regular network
computer using the configurtion for that situation.

My major concrn is that I seem to be not synchronizing ve3ry effectively by
use of the send/recieve command.

Thanks,

(e-mail address removed)

 

[cecilh0544]

Roady,

Thanks very much for your input. Sometimes our net admins don't have much
appreciation for the effect things they do and the end result for travelers.
I am seldom in my home office and am dependent on a dialup most times and a
DSL at most hotels I stay at.

I am using Outlook 2003 and the latest version of server - can't say
specifically. I do know that since the net folks turned caching off it has
slowed down considerably. A new database installation was having trouble
replicating with the cache running.

Thanks again.

 

[Roady [MVP]]

Well the cache makes sure you don't have to download the message each time
you want to view it. In fact it enables you to work with your e-mails while
offline. For mobile users I strongly recommend to turn this on. If you have
a large mailbox and a slow connection you might want to consider doing this
at the office so synching goes a lot faster.

Have your admins post their scenario why cached mode is troublesome for
them.

--
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
www.howto-outlook.com

Tips of the month:
-FREE tool; QuickMail. Create new Outlook items anywhere from within Windows
-Properly back-up and restore your Outlook data

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Roady,

Thanks very much for your input. Sometimes our net admins don't have much
appreciation for the effect things they do and the end result for travelers.
I am seldom in my home office and am dependent on a dialup most times and a
DSL at most hotels I stay at.

I am using Outlook 2003 and the latest version of server - can't say
specifically. I do know that since the net folks turned caching off it has
slowed down considerably. A new database installation was having trouble
replicating with the cache running.

Thanks again.