Is the user profile tool Exmon? In case it's not, would love to know what you use.. And if it turns out to be Exmon, which setting/metric/colummn screams "user-plugin/search toolbar" installed?
Harry. On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 3:53 PM, Steven Peck <sep...@gmail.com> wrote: > How many of your users recently downloaded a cool indexing program or > plugin (Xnobi) and are now indexing on their non-cached mode > mailboxes? There is a user profile tool you can use to collect stats > on the Exchange server and hunt these people down. > > If you have not deliberately changed anything recently then you are > looking at a user behavior change. Most likely search tools beating > your server to death. Your biggest 'free' bang for your buck will be > cached mode (remembering not to allow PSTs or OSTs on afile share). > > Something I wrote up a few years ago on mitigation (not solutions, > just mitigation). Note: This was written a few years ago and may not > apply to Outlook 2007. > http://www.blkmtn.org/outlook-settings-and-considerations > > On a wild guess I would look at Disk I/O first though. > > Steven > > On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 12:36 PM, Jason Gurtz <jasongu...@npumail.com> > wrote: > > I've only ever seen this myself in three cases from cached mode OL2k3, > > 2k7, and 2k10 against Ex2k3: > > > > 1.) [Over a VPN] While the client is catching up > > 2.) [On the LAN] Briefly, after rebooting Exchange and everyone is > > re-attaching > > 3.) [On the LAN] Migrating a user from PST storage to Mailbox on the > > server while OL is creating the OST. > > > > This points to two root causes: > > 1.) Network connection with high latency and low bandwidth > > 2.) Overloaded Exchange server (Disk I/O request latency) Yea, our > server > > is sucking wind. > > > > I can only assume that non-cached mode would worsen those situations. > > > > That's my bet, > > > > ~JasonG > > > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: Murray Freeman [mailto:mfree...@alanet.org] > >> Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2010 14:59 > >> To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues > >> Subject: [MARKETING] "OUTLOOK IS RETREIVING DATA" MESSAGE > >> > >> First, we're running Exchange Server 2K3 on Windows Server 2K3 and using > >> Outlook 2K3 as the client. Several of my users are getting the "Outlook > >> is retreiving data" message along with slowness and occassionally a > > white > >> screen. Any ideas as to the cause? It hasn't happened to me, but it has > >> happened to another administrator. The rest of our users are restricted > >> users. > >> > >> > >> Murray Freeman > >> > >> IT Manager > >> > >> > >> > >> Association of Legal Administrators > >> > >> 75 Tri-State International > >> > >> Suite 222 > >> > >> Lincolnshire, IL 60069-4435 > >> > >> 847.267.1252 TEL > >> > >> 847.267.1329 FAX > >> > >> 847.267.1367 DIRECT > >> > >> mfree...@alanet.org > >> > >> www.alanet.org > >> > >> > >> > >> Your connection > >> > >> to knowledge, resources and networking > >> > >> > > > > > > > > > > >
