Miles

Bit of a techie question this one, we have various sites around the place with poor connectivity back to the Exchange server in Aberdeen. All the Outlook clients have been set to "Work Offline" and send/receive with scheduled connections every 30 mins. I'm pretty sure that some people are reconfiguring Outlook and hence connecting in "Online" mode and hence hogging the available bandwidth.

To give you an idea of the bandwidth problems, for instance in one location we have 70 people connecting over a 192k VSAT... Slow is not the word

Been looking at the diagnostics logging in Exchange, but haven't seen anything clear to determine what mode the Outlook clients are connecting as - any suggestions?

(Exchange 5.5, Outlook 98 client)

David_Wallis

best bet would be run ms network monitor or similar and see what is going across your link, how is the link configured with regards to multicasts etc?

You could do a filter on a specific port in network monitor as well..

David

ChrisB

Not brill, but what looking at the last logon time for a users information store in Ex Admin?

<Goes to find an Ex 5.5 server to check this on!>

Miles

Thought of that one Chris, but ideally it would be a way of pulling the information from the logs. ie I have a list of usernames and can filter the event logs to determine which mode people are connecting in.