Additional mailboxes opens slow on Vista and office 2007

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My company has 2 Mailboxes called Sales and Info, it is configured on the exchange server and we are about 4 people that has these mailboxes configured as additional mailboxes. So everything is kept on the server and not on our PC's. When I ask outlook to open these new mailboxes (in addition to my personal one), then outlook is incredibly slow.(More then 5 minutes to open...) Then browsing the mails in Sales and Info are also very slow. The other p[people does not have these problems and also the settings are the same but they are running XP and not Vista.

The exchange server is SBS 2003.

Any ideas?
 
@ Snor - is the network very busy on that specific workstation when browsing the mails?

Meaning that network traffic picks up as soon as mails is being browsed.
 
Hallo Oom Boekwurm

Not that I can see, everything still works fine. If I click on one of the mails in the SALES or INFO, I let it run as just open up other work and carry on with that. So the machine is not slower it is just that two mailboxes.

Hope it makes sense, I havnt had coffee yet, so vergewe my asb...
 
Vista has problems with networking. Problems which SP1 for vista actually makes worse.

http://www.trustedreviews.com/software/news/2007/12/31/Vista-SP1-RC1-Slows-HDD-Network-Speeds/p1

Using identical quad core Penryn HP xw8600 test rigs with NVidia Quadro FX 4600 graphics cards, 15,000rpm SAS hard drives and 4GB of RAM, tests revealed that despite a minor boost in PC Mark (we found the same) vital real world uses such as copying files across a wired network and hard disk file transfers have not only not been improved, they've actually gotten worse.

Across a network transferring a 1.37GB file took three minutes 37 seconds using Windows XP SP2, the known Vista bug caused the same file to take a whopping 12 minutes 58 seconds, while Vista SP1 RC1 took even longer at 15 minutes 41 seconds. Furthermore, hard drive read and write tests using those lightening 15,000rpm SAS drives produced read/write figures of 119MBps/123MBps on XP SP2, just 83MBps/61MBps on Vista and a pitiful 80MBps/53MBps on Vista SP1 RC1.

So while the Vista's preliminary service pack does bring many welcome bug fixes it isn't without major quibbles of its own.
Even more worrying, XP SP3 RC1 promises to bring an impressive 10 per cent performance boost over SP2 making the incentive to upgrade to Vista smaller than ever.

Here's hoping that 'Release Candidate' isn't quite so finalised as Microsoft had let us believe. Stay tuned for our own more extensive tests on SP1 RC1 in the New Year.
Click to expand...

Further info on

http://gizmodo.com/337768/battlemodo...shipping-vista

Why all Vista users should upgrade to Windows XP

Just use xp man.

Sigh.
 
Thanks for the replies Oom Boekwurm and Qwikslver.....

Will see what I can organize with the whole XP upgrade thingy.... :(
 
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