"Also remember that Microsoft does NOT support Exchange nor outlook if you are running in Cached mode."
Care to cite where Microsoft will not support this configuration? A Technet or MSDN article citation will do. Even a white paper...
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After furious head scratching, Deme asked:
| I have to disagree with you.
| True using cahced mode does prevent the increased round trips to the
| server but speaking directly from experience and working in both
| arenas I have found that using Exchange under normal mode doesn't
| produce that much more traffic. Also if every DC in the Org is also a
| GC and running DNS then you really will have limited issues with
| updates to the GAL and server traffic. If you are running a clustered
| or even an non clustered environment as long as the DC's are also
| GC's and DNS servers You should be fine.Also remember that Microsoft
| does NOT support Exchange nor outlook if you are running in Cached
| mode.
| neo [mvp outlook] wrote:
|| Default is on for mailbox and off for public folder favorites.
||
|| I recommend use because it does isolate the customer from
|| intermittent connectivity issues from the Exchange & GC servers.
|| Since the user is primary working out of the offline address book
|| and OST, it means less round trips to the server when looking at the
|| same message lots of times. Less round tripping to the server means
|| that one should be able to have a higher user per server count.
||
|| The biggest drawback I hear about at work is that it can take up to
|| 24 hours before the end user sees a change to the global address
|| list. This is because the default behavior of Outlook 2003 is to
|| update the OAB once a day.
||
|| Oh and before I forget, cached mode is required in order for the
|| junk email feature to work in Outlook. When its off, its whatever
|| it is at the server.
||
|| in message ||| We are using Outlook 2003 and Exchange 2000 server. Getting
||| prompts about using cached exchange mode. What is the default
||| setting for this? Use or do
||| not use? What the benefits/drawbacks of using cached exchange
||| mode. We are
||| in a 2003 domain environment.
