Performance with Exchange

[tdkorson]

All the features and fixes in the world mean nothing to me compared to improving the performance of Outlook when used with exchange. I spend a significant anount of time every day waiting for outlook to load, or simply move a message to a public folder. Fix outlook so that it works with large amounts of email stored on an exchange server!

 

[Forum Admin]

Which version of outlook do you use? How large is you mailbox and public folders?

 

[phs3]

All the features and fixes in the world mean nothing to me compared to improving the performance of Outlook when used with exchange. I spend a significant anount of time every day waiting for outlook to load, or simply move a message to a public folder. Fix outlook so that it works with large amounts of email stored on an exchange server!

Indeed. Outlook 2007 still goes out to lunch frequently, even with SP3 (which made it *much* better). And it still crashes a couple of times a day for me, usually when I've taxed its wee brain by doing too many operations too close together.




It sure would be nice to have some evidence that sending all those crash reports actually led to something, eh?

 

[Darth Andy]

It sure would be nice to have some evidence that sending all those crash reports actually led to something, eh?

They're probably drowned out by all the times we click the "not useful" link on error dialogs

 

[Forum Admin]

They're probably drowned out by all the times we click the "not useful" link on error dialogs

I haven't seen too much evidence that this has helped, but most of the ones i report are for sharepoint and access. I know when you respond to these links on KB articles it can take 30 - 90 days for the correction to be published, so i don't expect anything until the next version or two.

The crash reports have allowed them to identify a large number of bugs, with fixes pushed out either as updates or released as hotfixes. During beta tests the crash reports are responsible for many fixes. A large number of things fixed by SP1 are the result of reports returned soon after RTM.

When the error report asks to send more data, they are still investigating it. When it doesn't send data they have enough info to identify the cause. When (or if) they fix it is another story, but they do fix many of the bugs they identify.