Limit their logon hours to the wee hours. They can dial-up all they want, they'll get punted outside those hours. You can stagger the hours and tell them what their window is.
There is no such command switch as you seek. There is the option to s/r on startup and scheduling OL to startup on a schedule is easy using the Windows Task Scheduler (or any of a number of similar 3rd-party tools). As for Chris et al: after years on this list we (collectively) have found that a lot of people will post here wanting validation for their solution when oftimes if we know the actual problem we can come up with a better solution. We don't' want to waste time, yours or ours, making a half-assed solution work when a better alternative is available. Thus the request for more info. Now... How many users are we talking about for these forty lines? Do any of them have broadband at their location? Perhaps you may want to research the cost-effectiveness of paying their broadband bill (maybe half of it?) to ease the strain on the phone lines. -----Original Message----- From: Gonzalez, Alex [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, November 25, 2002 1:07 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Command Switch or 3rd Party software for Send/Recieve on OXP Your being a total jerk about this question. I don't see what isn't technical about this question. It wasn't a question of what our people do, its how to automate our systems so they don't have to do as much manual work and bill for it. Daniel Chenault hit the nail on the head. It is creating a technical solution for a non technical problem. Isn't that what technology does? I apologize if I didn't give enough detail. These users are all on dialup and receive large emails with large attachments (pictures mainly) all day. When they go to synchronize their inbox it can take up to 2 hours for all the mail to download. The company doesn't want them billing for the time it takes to sit in front of their laptops waiting for it to download. They would rather schedule it at night and just have the rep read it while they are in the field the next day. As far as the question goes here is a refresher: Does anyone know of a command switch for Outlook.exe in Outlook XP that I could create a scheduled task that would open Outlook and perform a Send/Receive and then close Outlook? Or is there any third party software that would do this. Remember this is Outlook XP and the security is different. All you had to do was post back if you knew something. You don't have to be rude about it. Whether the user is awake or asleep is irrelevant all I needed to know is if you knew of anything. Maybe you don't know what a command switch is? I don't know. All I am looking for is something like "Outlook /sendreceive" (obviously that isn't it or I wouldn't be posting this), so that I could put the switch in the scheduled task to run Outlook.exe, setup Outlook to dial if there is no connection, run a send/receive, and be done with it. Or if there was a third party app that would do this for me. -----Original Message----- From: Chris Scharff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, November 25, 2002 12:51 PM To: Exchange Discussions Well, 287677 might work as well depending on what the actual problem to be solved is, but apparently this isn't the week for properly phrased technical questions. > -----Original Message----- > From: Tom Meunier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, November 25, 2002 11:45 AM > To: Exchange Discussions > > If I had that, I would have noticed that he wants a scheduled > execution of the F5 key, and would have kept my mouth shut. > Or perhaps suggested using the sendkeys thingy off the > resource kit (win2000 i think). > > http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;en-us;q259103 > > -----Original Message----- > From: Andy David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Posted At: > Monday, November 25, 2002 11:34 AM Posted To: MSExchange Mailing List > Conversation: Command Switch or 3rd Party software for > Send/Recieve on OXP > Subject: Re: Command Switch or 3rd Party software for > Send/Recieve on OXP > > > I did, however, ask Santa for the thingy that will read email > to me in my sleep. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Tom Meunier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Exchange Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, November 25, 2002 12:31 PM > Subject: RE: Command Switch or 3rd Party software for > Send/Recieve on OXP > > > I think once the guy post the actual problem he's trying to > solve, rather than his non-solution to it, it will become > clear that either BLAT or MAPISEND will solve the problem. > But who knows, since he won't give any details. > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
