It the best source of information I know of on the topic, so I don't know
where else to point you for similar information, unless you're in Redmond.
Sorry. :(
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joe Pochedley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 3:32 PM
> To: Exchange Discussions
> Subject: RE: How does synchronization work?
>
>
> Oh how I wish I was a subscriber...
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scharff, Chris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 3:18 PM
> To: Exchange Discussions
> Subject: RE: How does synchronization work?
>
>
> There was a great article by Tony Redmond on the subject in
> an issue of
> Exchange Administrator magazine earlier this year. It's
> available online to
> subscribers I believe.
>
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Joe Pochedley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 2:07 PM
> > To: Exchange Discussions
> > Subject: How does synchronization work?
> >
> >
> > Can somebody explain to me what steps Outlook and Exchange
> take when
> > performing a synchronization?
> >
> > Here's the scenario, Outlook 2000 SP1 client, Exchange 5.5
> > SP4 server...
> > User has an Inbox with 4400+ items, about 6 megs worth of
> > mail... Inbox
> > synchronizes for offline use in about 30 seconds....
> > Same user has a Sent Items folder with 2100+ items, but about
> > 200 megs worth
> > of "stuff" (being polite, he's got big attachments)... Takes
> > about half an
> > hour to synchronize, every time......
> >
> > Does Outlook have to compare each item in the folder every time it
> > synchronizes? I'm assuming that it does and that's why it
> takes half
> > an hour to synchronize (over a 384K WAN connection) every time
> > the user needs
> > to synch Outlook? If that's the case, wouldn't it be smarter
> > for Outlook to
> > keep some kind of change log while offline to assist in
> > synchronizing only
> > those items that have changed, and leaving other items alone?
> >
> > I'm not really looking for help here because I know the
> > answer is (most
> > likely) to have the user delete his larger sent items, but
> I'd like to
> > provide a good explanation of if / why it takes so long every
> > single time...
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> > Joe Pochedley
>
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