Oh how I wish I was a subscriber...
-----Original Message-----
From: Scharff, Chris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 3:18 PM
To: Exchange Discussions
Subject: RE: How does synchronization work?
There was a great article by Tony Redmond on the subject in an issue of
Exchange Administrator magazine earlier this year. It's available online to
subscribers I believe.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joe Pochedley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 2:07 PM
> To: Exchange Discussions
> Subject: How does synchronization work?
>
>
> Can somebody explain to me what steps Outlook and Exchange take when
> performing a synchronization?
>
> Here's the scenario, Outlook 2000 SP1 client, Exchange 5.5
> SP4 server...
> User has an Inbox with 4400+ items, about 6 megs worth of
> mail... Inbox
> synchronizes for offline use in about 30 seconds....
> Same user has a Sent Items folder with 2100+ items, but about
> 200 megs worth
> of "stuff" (being polite, he's got big attachments)... Takes
> about half an
> hour to synchronize, every time......
>
> Does Outlook have to compare each item in the folder every time it
> synchronizes? I'm assuming that it does and that's why it takes half
> an hour to synchronize (over a 384K WAN connection) every time
> the user needs
> to synch Outlook? If that's the case, wouldn't it be smarter
> for Outlook to
> keep some kind of change log while offline to assist in
> synchronizing only
> those items that have changed, and leaving other items alone?
>
> I'm not really looking for help here because I know the
> answer is (most
> likely) to have the user delete his larger sent items, but I'd like to
> provide a good explanation of if / why it takes so long every
> single time...
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Joe Pochedley
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