Outlook Slow

[Jay]

Hi All,
The Outlook XP is slow connecting to Exchange server 2000
server, sometimes it says cannot find exchange server and
also when you click on send and receive messeges , the
outlook try to establish connection with exchange server
2000 and also it is very slow.
Do anyone happen to know the same problem ? Please let me
know solution for this problem.

Thanks,
Jay

 

[Ben M. Schorr, MVP-OneNote]

Might be a name resolution issue. Can you ping the Exchange server, by
name, from the affected client?

Go to a command prompt (C:\) and type

PING [exchangeserver]

Where [exchangeserver] is the name of your server.


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[MiniComus]

Jay,
I am having problems with simillar symptoms. Ben also
answered my question with the same reply, which didn't
work-out as solution - I can ping the Exchange server just
fine from the client in question. I replied back to HIS
reply with the results that the ping resolved the server
name just fine, and asked if he had suggestions about what
to try next. There hasn't been anywhere NEAR enough time
for my most recent reply to show up in the newsgroup, so
I'm waiting and hoping.

If you get any sort of resolution on this problem, can you
please let me know what you did for the fix? I will try
to post a fix in reply to your question if I get it
figured-out.

Thanks!

Thanks!

 

[MiniComus]

Jay,
I tried a few searches in this newsgroup and came up with
quite a few suggestions to remedy the same symptoms by
disabling Instant Messaging through the client's Outlook
settings (Tools/Options/Other... then un-check the box at
bottom of window for "Enable Instant Messaging...").

Since the problem generally doesn't happen unless there is
lots of logon activity on the network, I won't have
any "test" for this fix until tomorrow AM when the client
tries logging back into Exchange with the IM disabled.

But hey - it seemed to work for a lot of others out there,
so I'm going to try it!

 

[Mayor Menino]

I've had similar problems - Outlook 2002 client (running on Win XP
pro) takes at least 30 seconds to connect to Exchange Server 2000.
Sometimes it even gives me the "retry" dialog box.

The solution was setting up DNS settings on my XPpro workstation
correctly. Even though I use DHCP from assigned from a Linksys Router
(configed for my ISP) I still needed to add the DNS server from my
Win2k Server running Active Directory.

In WinXPpro I simply added the DNS server for my private network also
where Exchange server 2000 runs and I connect in a flash now

Hope this helps out

Mayor Menino

 

[Jay]

Hi,
Looks like problem is resolved.
I did two things, one I rearraged binding order is: First
TCP/IP, then Netbieu or Netbios then IPX ODI ( If you have
one), in Avanced networking Properties.
I was not able to ping exchage server by name but I could
able to ping IP address, since I don't run win server , I
just added Hostname (Exchange server name) and IP address
of exchange server in the etc\host file.
Now the Outlook connects very immediately.

Thanks,
Jay

 

[Ben M. Schorr, MVP-OneNote]

That will do it.

You really should look into getting DNS (or at least WINS) working properly
in your network, though. In the long run you'll be a lot happier.


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-Ben-
Ben M. Schorr, OneNote-MVP
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