Public folders connection speed

[Patrick]

I have Outllok 2007 on my laptop and connect locally to my firm's network
with Exchange 2003. I have a POP mail account set up fedding to a a .pst
folder on my C drive in addition to the Exchange mailbox.

When connected to the network, the access to my Exchange mailbox folder and
subfolders is great. But, when I access a public folder, it can take up to
several minutes to load and open. Doesn't matter whether they are in the
public folder favorites. I didn't have this problem when I had a desktop.

It appears that the connection to the public folder uses only a very small
percentage of the network utilization speed (as shown in Task Manager) when
connecting to the public folder.

What to do? My IT guys are stumped.

 

[Roady [MVP]]

Do you have Outlook configured to cache the Public Folder Favorites?

I assume you are connecting via Outlook Anywhere and not VPN?
You can try toggling the following options in your account settings;
On fast/slow networks, connect via HTTP first

Enabling logging in Outlook and looking at the performance and logs of the
Exchange server might also give some more insights.