Requesting data from Exchange Server
Jason Sele
For several months we have been experiencing these messages on many
machines at our office. The problem became noticeable when we
upgraded to Outlook 2002. I determined that 2002 added the Requesting
Data message and that is why it was more obvious to the users.
Outlook 2000 was not as bad but displaying the message in 2002 made it
obvious.
We are running Exchange Server 2000 on a Windows 2000 Server. We
tried all of the suggested posts in the newsgroups with no success.
It was not switches, disk access, server utilization, McAffee, the
version of outlook, settings in outlook or settings in exchange. We
decided to take an exact same server and reinstall Windows 2000 and
Exchange 2000 from scratch. We moved all 130 mail accounts to the new
Exchange server and configured the new server with all the same
settings as the old one. It fix all the problems. Some users were
getting dozens of messages a day and some even with every click in
Outlook. Now only a few people get 2 or 3 per day and most never
receive the message. Our servers hardware and software configuration
are exactly the same. They are the same exact specs, same network
cards, same tape backup, purchased at the same time. Obviously
something affected our old server that was not apparent with any
configuration. Our only suspicion is that Nimda hit about the same
time we experienced the slowness, also around the same time we
upgraded to Outlook 2002. It may have been some software we installed
and removed tht left a registry entry or damaged something. Hard to
tell but we are working much better now.
If you have tried all the other solutions and have the luxury to
reinstall from scratch give it a try. Saved us the problems.