Re: XP SP 2 changes Outlook 2000 behaviour...

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From: Star Fleet Admiral Q (Star_Fleet_Admiral_Q(NOSPAM)_at_(SPAMNOT)hotmail.com)
Date: 09/09/04 

Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2004 21:46:16 -0400

I doubt many corporate users would even notice a 60 second (that's 1 minute)
delay - most corporate environment take longer than that for exchange to
perform the necessary virus/worm/Trojan/malware/spammail scans (you are
doing those on all mail - inbound/outbound internal/external - right),
depending on what version of protection you are using. 

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"run4yourlives" <run4yourlives@gmail.com> wrote in message 
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> Just a message to all, since I had a hell of a time dealing with this
> problem, and the "solutions" are few and far between; remaining
> unacceptable in my mind.
>
> XP Service Pack 2 changes the way Outlook 2000 interacts with the
> Exchange Server, causing a "delay" in sending and recieving mail.
>
> From MS:
>
> "The default preference for e-mail notification in Outlook is UDP, and
> if that fails, then it uses polling...The default polling time is 60
> seconds and is set at the Exchange Server."
>
> XP Service Pack 2 blocks all UDP communication between Outlook and
> Exchange, EVEN IF THE FIREWALL IS "OFF"! (which makes me wonder what
> "off" really means).
> If someone can prove me wrong here, I'm listening, since all my
> efforts to try and prove otherwise have failed.
>
> So, with SP2 on Windows XP, Outlook will run using RPC polling, which
> defaults to a 60 second minimum value, meaning the maximum polling
> time is 120 seconds. To a user this means email is delayed up to two
> minutes.
>
> This is a noticable change for any user used to working with outlook
> in a corporate enviornment; and to many unacceptable, as it pretty
> much destroys the previous percieved real-time interaction. My gmail
> account works faster.
>
> Furthermore, the 60 second polling interval is set by the Exchange
> Server and requires the addition of a registry key on the server to
> change. In addition, MS recommends that 60 seconds is the minimum
> value used.
>
> Something for all those in corporate environments to be aware of.
> Since we have a network firwall anyways, I'll be withholding
> installing SP2 on corporate machines, lest I have to deal with people
> thinking their outlook is broken.

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