Without going directly into the OST/PST discussion I would suggest to look at the new Outlook 11 coming up on the horizon. A lot of new features have to do with slow links.
** Please prefix your subject header with BETA for posts dealing with Exchange 2003 ** -------------------------- Martin Tuip MVP Exchange Exchange 2000 List owner www.exchange-mail.org www.sharepointserver.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- ----- Original Message ----- From: "Neil Doody" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Exchange Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 10:34 AM Subject: Sync Folders - Small Bandwith Recent conversations have caused me to re-think the entire Exchange strategy that is in place here. The biggest bulk of that strategy includes Backups. The new idea is to go with Item Retention, this highlights the issue that most of the people round here have Personal Folders containing there email, which in turn means that there is no way they are getting backed up. The problem im faced with is that a lot of our sites have only a 64k ISDN link which may be linking 10 people or more! Okay you can scrutinise me for having such a small link for such an amount of users, but hey im not going to pay out of my wages for a larger link ;p Anyway, this problem means that working directly from the Mail Box is out of the question, the next best thing I guess is Offline-Folders. Offline-Folders appear to be the perfect the solution, running a small test over a dial up connection you would think they were the ideal candidate for this situation. However, a colleague informs me that it completely kills the network when you have a few people synchronising folders over an 64k link. Do synchronise folders use more bandwidth than your average Personal Folder? Are there any other issues to consider when using offline folders as apposed to personal folders? Im also informed that when you make a new folder in your mail box it is not automatically synchronised with the server? Please can you give me all your experience and all your info on working with synchronise folders within a working enterprise. No matter how irrelevant you think it may seem, I would like to know exactly what im in for if I move to this solution. _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
