I have managed exchange server over WAN's before. The difference is
that I always had the luxury of plenty of bandwidth. I currently use
OWA with a 128K ISDN line from home and the the performance is
marginal. I think you'll find anything with attachments still will
require the client to download the file before it can be viewed or
saved even with OWA.
The first thing I would do would be to get a network analyzer on that
connection and see what's going on. Make connections and see how
much data is be transferred from server to client. Plus get an idea
of how much traffic is on the wan at different times. If you have 2
or three active terminal sessions running and 5 email clients
checking email with one downloading an attachments you may just need
more bandwidth. Once you have the average amount of data transferred
per hour you can calculate if the connection is being fully used.
You also need to look at large burst data transferrs because they are
the ones that seem slow to the users.
Personal folder work the messages are just delayed in delivery, but
you want to make sure you store everyones .pst file on a server that
is backed up and not on local PC hard drives.
that I always had the luxury of plenty of bandwidth. I currently use
OWA with a 128K ISDN line from home and the the performance is
marginal. I think you'll find anything with attachments still will
require the client to download the file before it can be viewed or
saved even with OWA.
The first thing I would do would be to get a network analyzer on that
connection and see what's going on. Make connections and see how
much data is be transferred from server to client. Plus get an idea
of how much traffic is on the wan at different times. If you have 2
or three active terminal sessions running and 5 email clients
checking email with one downloading an attachments you may just need
more bandwidth. Once you have the average amount of data transferred
per hour you can calculate if the connection is being fully used.
You also need to look at large burst data transferrs because they are
the ones that seem slow to the users.
Personal folder work the messages are just delayed in delivery, but
you want to make sure you store everyones .pst file on a server that
is backed up and not on local PC hard drives.
--- In vantage@y..., Fausto Filippi <ffilippi@n...> wrote:
> We currently connect one of our remote offices via a 128K Frame
Relay
> Connection. We run WIN2K Terminal Server (TS) for Vantage over that
link and
> that seems to run pretty well.
>
> Rather than running the MS Outlook 2000 client via TS, we use the
Frame
> Relay Connection to connect to our Exchange 5.5. SP4 Server. I
have set up
> the TS session to only open Vantage. Once Vantage is closed, TS
closes. I do
> not want the users to see the desktop, so I would like to keep it
this way.
>
> The problem is that there is lag when reading and responding to
emails. It
> becomes painfully obvious, when there is an attachment involved.
>
> Is anybody else in a similar situation? If so, what have you done,
to speed
> on the MS Outlook for your remote clients? I have thought of
letting them
> use OWA to connect. Any thoughts ideas would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Fausto
>
>
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