Outlook 2003 together with Exchange 5.5

[Guest]

All my clients "3000" running Outlook2002 together with Exchange 5.5, the
company now wants to migrate all clients to Office 2003. We running a small
pilot projects with 50 clients, and it’s really works good. Some user’s
reports problem with address books and mail stuck in the outboox.
I wonder if anyone has any other known issues with Outlook 2003 and Exchange
5.5? We are also thinking to migrate to Sp2 in XP, do I get any improvements
with XP sp2 together with Office2003 ore can I migrate to Office 2003 first
without problems?

 

[neo [mvp outlook]]

Yes there are known issues with Outlook 2003 running against Exchange 5.5.

Assuming that Exchange 5.5 is at SP4, there are a couple of Exchange updates
that you are going to need that fix issues introduced by Outlook 2003.
(Outlook 2003 does write some extra properties to items that the Exchange
information store and earlier versions of Outlook don't expect. These extra
properties will cause OWA to stop responding, the information store to crash
during an online backup, or earlier version to appear to hang at close
because Outlook 2003 + a previous version is accessing the same mailbox.)

About the only added features you get in moving to Outlook 2003 when running
against Exchange 5.5 is...

1) Improved client side junk e-mail handling (requires client to be in
cached mode)
2) Cached mode Exchange

Cached mode might be causing some of your calls on issues with address books
or stuck mail. Cached mode introduces small delays between client and
server because the client workstation is working primarily from the *.OST
and *.OAB files. Therefore the clients will not notice updates to the
Global Address List for 24 hours (Outlook only syncs changes once a day) or
they will notice up to a 60 second delay before new items show or leave
their Inbox.

No to the last question. You do not get the full benefits of Outlook 2003
until the site moves to Exchange 2003 on Windows 2003 and all DC/GCs are
Windows 2003 servers. (Client side of course will require Windows XP (SP1)
+ a specific patch or SP2)

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[Guest]

Thanks.
The question about moving to SP2 on XP client’s first ore Office 2003
migratation.
Sp2 doesn’t have any fixes ore other improvements together with Office2003?

/Richoo

"neo [mvp outlook]" skrev:

 

[neo [mvp outlook]]

You can do either first for the environment you describe because Exchange
5.5 is not going to let Outlook 2003 utilize its full potential. (e.g.
Exchange 5.5 does not support RPC over HTTPs. Exchange 5.5 does not support
compression. Exchange 5.5 doesn't support Outlook 2003 ability to ask for
full item, header & item, or header only. Therefore Outlook 2003 is going
to disable hide things the server doesn't support. Since Outlook 2003 is
going to dummie itself down to play as nice as it can with Exchange 5.5, it
doesn't really matter what you do client side first because some of the
features can't be utilized.)

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Thanks.
The question about moving to SP2 on XP client's first ore Office 2003
migratation.
Sp2 doesn't have any fixes ore other improvements together with
Office2003?

/Richoo

"neo [mvp outlook]" skrev:

Yes there are known issues with Outlook 2003 running against Exchange
5.5.

Assuming that Exchange 5.5 is at SP4, there are a couple of Exchange
updates
that you are going to need that fix issues introduced by Outlook 2003.
(Outlook 2003 does write some extra properties to items that the Exchange
information store and earlier versions of Outlook don't expect. These
extra
properties will cause OWA to stop responding, the information store to
crash
during an online backup, or earlier version to appear to hang at close
because Outlook 2003 + a previous version is accessing the same mailbox.)

About the only added features you get in moving to Outlook 2003 when
running
against Exchange 5.5 is...

1) Improved client side junk e-mail handling (requires client to be in
cached mode)
2) Cached mode Exchange

Cached mode might be causing some of your calls on issues with address
books
or stuck mail. Cached mode introduces small delays between client and
server because the client workstation is working primarily from the *.OST
and *.OAB files. Therefore the clients will not notice updates to the
Global Address List for 24 hours (Outlook only syncs changes once a day)
or
they will notice up to a 60 second delay before new items show or leave
their Inbox.

No to the last question. You do not get the full benefits of Outlook
2003
until the site moves to Exchange 2003 on Windows 2003 and all DC/GCs are
Windows 2003 servers. (Client side of course will require Windows XP
(SP1)
+ a specific patch or SP2)

"(e-mail address removed)"