Outlook 2010 causes computer to lose connection when opening and Send/Receive

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Very strange - I set up a new Windows 7 system and finally installed Outlook 2010 yesterday including Outlook connector. It opened and downloaded all my emails, folders, etc for my Hotmail account. I went to send an email and it stalled and was stuck on Sending/Receiving and finally it stopped with a connectivity error. I looked and the Network icon showed that it was disconnected. I thought my home network was having problems so I swapped Ethernet cables with a working computer next to it. The same thing happened. I realized that the connection worked fine until I opened Outlook. Bizarre. I am using it right now and it worked great until Outlook is opened, then it loses it's connection. I uninstalled Outlook Connector and reinstalled it twice, disabled most of the other add-ins, ran CCleaner, disabled/enabled the network adapter, and a few other things. I have solved some pretty trick connectivity/network issues, but this has me stumped.
 
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When you say this, do you mean your entire internet connection dies when you have Outlook open with the connector installed?

One thing you can try, is if you can repeat this every time, try opening a command prompt and pinging a website while you have these "connectivity issues". Anything will work, but i'd recommend something like Google.

You can also try pinging the PC next to you if you know its current IP address or name. This will tell you if your external or internal network connections are working. I've seen something else like this before, but I can't quite remember what the fix was right now.
 
Re: Outlook 2010 causes computer to lose connection when opening and Send/Rece

SMAndy said:
When you say this, do you mean your entire internet connection dies when you have Outlook open with the connector installed?

One thing you can try, is if you can repeat this every time, try opening a command prompt and pinging a website while you have these "connectivity issues". Anything will work, but i'd recommend something like Google.

You can also try pinging the PC next to you if you know its current IP address or name. This will tell you if your external or internal network connections are working. I've seen something else like this before, but I can't quite remember what the fix was right now.
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Yes, that's exactly correct - the entire connection - and yes I opened a command prompt and couldn't ping Google (which is pingable - as well as www.abc.com)

I would then disable/enable the network connection, wait a minute, it would resume it's connection to the Internet, and would be totally fine until I opened Outlook again and tried to Send/Receive. I eventually did push a couple of emails through before the connection would go down, but it does this consistently, every time I try to use Outlook.
 
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Do you lose connection if you open Outlook with the connector uninstalled?

One thing I always advocate is the removal of the QoS Packet Scheduler from the network adapters. I've never seen a situation where it was useful, and far more often seen a time when it causes faults where none should be. Try unticking it and see if that helps. It might be reading an error somewhere, and assumes that your network connection is dead...

Feel free to call me crazy about that one...

edit: Also, just found this: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/stephen_gri...t-office-outlook-connector-kills-winsock.aspx so i'd check your connector version.
 
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I was going to say it was the connection setting in outlook, but the connector doesn't let you set any connection options (connect using lan/phone line, etc).

Is that the only account in the profile? Does it work in safe mode? What antivirus do you use? I'm thinking an antivirus is scanning mail and locking out the NIC. While AV addins cause a number of problems, I've not heard of it doing this.
 
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Diane Poremsky said:
I was going to say it was the connection setting in outlook, but the connector doesn't let you set any connection options (connect using lan/phone line, etc).

Is that the only account in the profile? Does it work in safe mode? What antivirus do you use? I'm thinking an antivirus is scanning mail and locking out the NIC. While AV addins cause a number of problems, I've not heard of it doing this.
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I'm with you... I've never seen AV addins cause this kind of problems.

I'm an IT Techie that deals with more than just exchange related things, and I can remember a call i dealt with that was essentially the same as you've got.

Can you change the account that uses the connector to your primary account?

Do you use a proxy server?

is there another computer you can try this setup on for testing purposes?
 
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The connector forces upgrades and disables access if you don't have the latest version. That's not to say that this problem hasn't returned in later builds, but I'm not seeing evidence of that. It's up to v14 currently, last release from summer 2012.
 
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Diane Poremsky said:
The connector forces upgrades and disables access if you don't have the latest version. That's not to say that this problem hasn't returned in later builds, but I'm not seeing evidence of that. It's up to v14 currently, last release from summer 2012.
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Could it be that the dll file that deals with this could be left in a system from a previous old install? Would a full removal of office & the connector, and install from scratch?
 
Re: Outlook 2010 causes computer to lose connection when opening and Send/Rece

In this case, no, because he said new system. Unless he used Easy Transfer to move everything over... but the install should overwrite the old dlls.

It sounds like we've all been around computers enough to know "should" doesn't always happen... but I'd bet on some app took a disliking to outlook and they aren't getting along. It could be security software (AV, firewall, or antispam), anything that uses outlook data (usually sync software), or something else - that would be where I'd look first.
 
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Thanks for all the responses - will comb through this.

This is the only account I have set up with Outlook, so if I uninstall the Connector, Outlook won't even open, it will just give me an error.

No proxy server.

Again, thanks
 
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Well, as much as I'd like to know what caused this problem - it's no longer an issue. I've had a constant connection for days. I did uncheck the QOS Packet Scheduler, and thought maybe that was the magic bullet, but I just rechecked it and the problem hasn't come back. I believe it may have stopped after my huge Hotmail sync was finally finished - 6000+ emails and 3200+ contacts and huge calender (still puzzled that only 1514 contacts would sync - and I just realized that I am discussing that with you over on slipstick, Diane :)

Thanks for your help - if this pops up again, I'll be back in a "skinny instant" (a phrase I heard from someone in the South once)
 
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I've had others say QoS caused connection problems. Sometimes just deselecting and reselecting fixes settings that are not correct.
 
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Well, as soon as I said something it went out again. I finally started looking at the hardware to see if it could be the source of the problem. Sure enough, a search of my network adapter, an Atheros L1 on the Asus P5K mobo came up with lots of users with connection issues, many occurring when transferring large files. I followed their advice in tweaking some of the advanced properties, and bingo - a Send/Receive pulled down about 15 emails. All day it had disconnected me during every Send/Receive. Let's see if this holds...
 
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02befree said:
Well, as soon as I said something it went out again.
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Isn't that how it always is? :)
 
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