Send/Receive Settings - Modify-URGENT pls

[Amin from TO]

We have Outlook 2003 Clients who are conbnecting to Exchange 2000 Servrs
using 256 K pipe. In the send/receive settings (ctrl-alt-S), 'Download
offline address book' is checked. This may be causing slow responses during
logon as it might be ldowloading OAB. Cache mode is disabled.
We have tried using CMW to 'correct' the issue. It seems that cmw has no
effect as it does not remove the chk mark.

Is there anything else we could do to corect that short of doing it manually?
I do not believe we have a GPO to correct that side of send/receive. (i.e.
changing .srs file).

Any help would be appreciated.

 

[Ben M. Schorr - MVP]

I'd be using cached mode over that slow a connection. That may help your
performance too.

Is it slow only during logon?

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[Amin from TO]

Cache Mode with Exchange 2000 has its own demons. like full download of OAB
when logging in via Outlook 2003, etc. That is one of the reasons why we
would like this disabled.

If you are asking Windows logon, the short answer is Yes. This has started
since Users were migrated to WinXP from Win2K. Winlogon takes a 1-3 mins even
with local GC/DC due to login script. Then we have a dwnload of OAB. If we
disable that, then Outlook 203 is 'out of the picture' for percieved low
response. Network traces indicate this could be a bottleneck.
Hope this helps .

 

[Amin from TO]

Wow! FOund an answer to to my own problem;

Problem: How do we 'disable' "download Offline Address book' for
Send/Receive Settings, so that when the User logs on, the download starts.
This is 'bad' if you have Outlook 2003 with Exchange 2000, as it is a full
download. This is a problem with small bandwidth.

Solution: Close Outlook, delete .srs files. When you open Outlook and define
Send/Receive Settings, then the check mark is not there as a default. When
you close Send/Receive, new .srs files are created.
As this cannot be changed via CMW etc, this is the only way i found and
hope it helps somebody in similar dilemma.