Best setup for use of laptop

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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,

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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)
 
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.
 
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.
 
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