Right-click the Outlook icon while holding down the ctrl key and select
connection status. See if there are a lot of retries to the Exchange
Server.
Tom
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"Mirjam van de Veen" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I am working with outlook 2003 and regularly get the message "microsoft
> outlook is trying to connect to exchange server".
> But nothing seems to be wrong with the exchange server.
>
> Anyone any suggestions??
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