I have read this newsgroup and other sites and am confused.

We run an Exchange 2000 environment with Outlook 2000 and Outlook 2003
clients.

What is the advantages of enabling Cached mode for the Outlook 2003
clients?

Lots of these 2003 clients are travelling users (i.e. go overseas, slow
access back to the Exchange 2000 Server).

Can someone explain the advantages/disadvantages clearly? Thank you.

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> What is the advantages of enabling Cached mode for the Outlook 2003
> clients?
>
> Can someone explain the advantages/disadvantages clearly? Thank you.

I believe this article says it best:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/pro...7c5ebbc10.mspx

Outlook Management
http://goffconcepts.com/products/win...ler/index.html

<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>I have read this newsgroup and other sites and am confused.
>
> We run an Exchange 2000 environment with Outlook 2000 and Outlook 2003
> clients.
>
> What is the advantages of enabling Cached mode for the Outlook 2003
> clients?
>
> Lots of these 2003 clients are travelling users (i.e. go overseas, slow
> access back to the Exchange 2000 Server).
>
> Can someone explain the advantages/disadvantages clearly? Thank you.
>

This one is good too:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/as...402591033.aspx

Cached Exchange mode will give you:

-- Ability to switch between working online and offline seamlessly
-- Support for larger, Unicode-capable .ost files to store more data and handle multiple languages

Disadvantages: Need to perform an initial synchronization of the mailbox, best done while the user is in the office, but can be done even over a slow network link.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx


--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx


<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>I have read this newsgroup and other sites and am confused.
>
> We run an Exchange 2000 environment with Outlook 2000 and Outlook 2003
> clients.
>
> What is the advantages of enabling Cached mode for the Outlook 2003
> clients?
>
> Lots of these 2003 clients are travelling users (i.e. go overseas, slow
> access back to the Exchange 2000 Server).
>
> Can someone explain the advantages/disadvantages clearly? Thank you.
>