Outlook 2003: Turn off Cached Mode

[Jeroen]

Hi,

I have merged two companies on a single domain. But on one domain, most
Office 2003 didn't have any policies definied and were managed per
workstation. Now I want to disabled the Exchange Server Cached Mode since it
does not have any added value on a LAN. As a matter of fact, it causes a lot
overhead network traffic for notebook users (which use offline storage
succesfully).

How can I turn off the Cached Mode by applying group policies or script at
logon for clients that already have this configured?


Jeroen

 

[F. H. Muffman]

I have merged two companies on a single domain. But on one domain, most
Office 2003 didn't have any policies definied and were managed per
workstation. Now I want to disabled the Exchange Server Cached Mode since
it does not have any added value on a LAN. As a matter of fact, it causes
a lot overhead network traffic for notebook users (which use offline
storage succesfully).

How can I turn off the Cached Mode by applying group policies or script at
logon for clients that already have this configured?

Cached mode has a number of added values on a LAN, specifically surrounding
availability of the Exchange server. If, for any reason, the Exchange
server is unavailable, be it a network hardware failure, or a server
failure, or even just a 'I wanted to reboot the server real quick to apply a
patch', clients can still continue to work with their data on 'the server'
even tho it's down.

Otherwise, any little network hiccup and Outlook will slow to a crawl while
it figures out what's going on.

If you still think you want to do it,
http://technet2.microsoft.com/Offic...c918-420e-bab3-8b49e18850341033.mspx?mfr=true
(found through a quick google of 'policy cached mode outlook exchange').

 

[Peter Durkee]

Another added value on a LAN is that it isolates the Exchange server from
all the people running Google Desktop and other similar indexing search
tools. If people are in cached mode, indexing is run on the local copy of
the store, whereas if they aren't in cached mode all that indexing activity
is done by reading the mailbox contents from the Exchange server. Microsoft
has gone so far as to make their indexing search tool, Windows Desktop
Search, require that you be in cached mode before it'll index your mail.

-Peter