The stupid windows XP / Outlook2003

[Steve]

Previously we are using windows98 / windows95 with outlook 98 in our branch
office, the email server is in the head office and the leased line bandwidth
is 128K

Everything is become crazy slow after we upgrade all the hardware from old
Pentium II to Pentium 4, and upgrade the OS to windows XP, and the mail
client to Outlook 2003

I try to put back one of the old workstation with old OS and old outlook
client, eveything seem smoothly again.

So does it means windows XP is bad that it must working in high speed branch
office ? the windows XP generate too much network traffic then the older OS
?

any expert can help me ?

I really feed up with the microsoft produt

 

[Darren McGuire]

Hi Steve

We are also experiencing the same problem, although we
have Outlook 2002 (XP).

Our previous OS was Win2000 and worked fine at our
branches, they were all quite fast.

Now ALL branches that are running XP are running slowly,
but the wierd thing with us is the network seems to get
really slow around 2 or 3pm.

I have had the WAN engineer look at the network traffic
across the WAN and he has said there is nothing more than
usual, so it seems to be just within each site that it
goes slow.

I do not have any solutions?

Does anyone else

Darren

 

[Matice]

Could it be the indexing service kicking in?

Hi Steve

We are also experiencing the same problem, although we
have Outlook 2002 (XP).

Our previous OS was Win2000 and worked fine at our
branches, they were all quite fast.

Now ALL branches that are running XP are running slowly,
but the wierd thing with us is the network seems to get
really slow around 2 or 3pm.

I have had the WAN engineer look at the network traffic
across the WAN and he has said there is nothing more than
usual, so it seems to be just within each site that it
goes slow.

I do not have any solutions?

Does anyone else

Darren

 

[Steve]

Hi Dareen,

I just call microsoft base the document
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=829418

seem that exchange server 5.5 can not work with outlook 2003..

will see how it work after install the microsoft's hot fix

steven