I thought Ed was the originator of the "there are rarely technological solutions to behavioral problems" comment?????
-----Original Message----- From: Drew Nicholson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, 26 November 2002 6:30 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Command Switch or 3rd Party software for Send/Recieve on OXP Well... First of all, Chris isn't being a jerk. In addition, if you're using your client's resources -- ie, the phone and the computer -- for several hours at night, don't they deserve renumeration? Nevertheless... What you want is for Outlook to start, dial up the server, download mail, hang up, and shut off. Ok. I suppose that might be doable, sort of. Now, you don't mention what operating system your users are using. I have Win2KPro. In START/PROGRAMS/ACCESSORIES/SYSTEM TOOLS, there's a program called "Scheduled Tasks". In that, you can schedule outlook to be launched, and if you look at the advanced properties of the task, on the SETTINGS tab you'll see a check box for "Stop the Task if it runs for X hours and X minutes." That MIGHT shut outlook down. Honestly, I don't know. You can test it and try. Even if it does, there's no way for the task to know if all the mail has been downloaded, so you'll have to guess. Also, I doubt that this would be a graceful shutdown, so you run the risk of causing problems with your PSTs, which you must be using. As Daniel said, there are rarely technological solutions to behavioral problems. I think this is one of those times, and the real solution is to "fix" it very differently. A far better solution is a VPN, as has been mentioned, or even Outlook Web Access, which might be somewhat faster than POPing. Did you look at the technet article Chris kindly posted? Drew Nicholson Technical Writer Network Engineer LAN Manager RapidApp 312-372-7188 (work) 312-543-0008 (cell) Born To Edit -----Original Message----- From: Gonzalez, Alex [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, November 25, 2002 1:07 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Command Switch or 3rd Party software for Send/Recieve on OXP Your being a total jerk about this question. I don't see what isn't technical about this question. It wasn't a question of what our people do, its how to automate our systems so they don't have to do as much manual work and bill for it. Daniel Chenault hit the nail on the head. It is creating a technical solution for a non technical problem. Isn't that what technology does? I apologize if I didn't give enough detail. These users are all on dialup and receive large emails with large attachments (pictures mainly) all day. When they go to synchronize their inbox it can take up to 2 hours for all the mail to download. The company doesn't want them billing for the time it takes to sit in front of their laptops waiting for it to download. They would rather schedule it at night and just have the rep read it while they are in the field the next day. As far as the question goes here is a refresher: Does anyone know of a command switch for Outlook.exe in Outlook XP that I could create a scheduled task that would open Outlook and perform a Send/Receive and then close Outlook? Or is there any third party software that would do this. Remember this is Outlook XP and the security is different. All you had to do was post back if you knew something. You don't have to be rude about it. Whether the user is awake or asleep is irrelevant all I needed to know is if you knew of anything. Maybe you don't know what a command switch is? I don't know. All I am looking for is something like "Outlook /sendreceive" (obviously that isn't it or I wouldn't be posting this), so that I could put the switch in the scheduled task to run Outlook.exe, setup Outlook to dial if there is no connection, run a send/receive, and be done with it. Or if there was a third party app that would do this for me. \ _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
