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Exchange: Slow Performance
LockedI know a lot of questions have been asked regarding slow Exchange performance but none of them seem to answer my question.
Environment: NT4 SP6, Exchange 5.5 (not a PDC or BDC), 50-user network (around 40 use email).
Problem: My Exchange installation has been running for about 2 years without a hitch. Recently however it started to have problems, namely slow connection. Initial connection to the server (after you click the Outlook icon) is normal. Everything is fine except when the user opens an old email or and old email with attachment. There is a delay of 5-10 seconds for every old email with an attachment. Most old emails without attachment open up quickly except for a few.
I examined the Application and System logs but nothing unusual was found. It looked like a network problem so I teamed up the NICs to double the bandwidth but that didn’t seem to help. What is going on here? Can somebody help?
BTW: All users are set to connect to the server via the Exchange connector (LAN connection). Some are laptop users but I don’t think that’s the problem because we had them since the beginning.