Delays in new emails showing up in Inbox in Outlook 2000

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I've got several users on our Exchange network who have this problem. New
emails won't show up in their inbox until they either open an existing email
in the inbox or go to their calendar/tasks/contacts and then back to the
inbox.

They're all up on the latest service packs for Office, Win 2K, and Win XP.

I have fixed this problem in the past by deleting the users' Windows
profiles and recreating them. That's the only thing that seems to work, and
obviously it's quite drastic. I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling
Office, deleting the users' Outlook profiles, and spyware scans come up
clean. Now some of the users with recreated Windows profiles are having the
issue again, so that's not a permanent solution.

Does anyone know of a fix or even a cause for this?

Thanks,
J. Henney

 

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windows firewall causes this. Make an exception for program outlook.exe

 

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I forgot to include that one in my last post. I've tried that on multiple
users. No luck.

Thanks,
J. Henney