What is your user environment like? You indicated the problem commonly surfaces during the "first logon". Do you have a large number of users logging in at or around the same time in the morning? What about mailbox sharing behavior? Do a lot of users share their mail folders/calendars/etc. with other users? I've heard in the past that Exchange having to consistently rebuild "Address Book Views" (I believe that was the terminology) can cause performance degradation at the server level, ultimately affecting the clients. I'm working off memory here, but I seem to recall that folder views are cached until it is viewed for the 11th time, at which time a new view is generated.
Whatever the case may be, I'd start paying particular attention to server performance, specifically the disks. Just my $.02 :-) - Sean On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 10:12 AM, Murray Freeman <mfree...@alanet.org>wrote: > Thank you for all the suggestions. I tried opening in Safe Mode and > shutting down all the Add-ins and then testing with each of our add-ins. > End result, virtually the same speed in opening Outlook. Finally, I then > logged out of our network, and then logged back in. I waited until it > appeared that the login process was complete, and immediately opened > Outlook in normal mode. It took 37 seconds. I then closed Outlook and > reopened it after waiting a few seconds. It took 8 seconds. I believe > the problem is related to the login process and not a problem with > Outlook. I'll test again tomorrow morning but I suspect the results will > be the same. Thanks again for the suggestions. > > > Murray > > > > >
