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I am running Outlook 2003 on XP Pro, connecting to an offsite exchange server. &nbsp;This machine has beenworking fine for months prior. &nbsp;After installing Visio 2003 and patching, I am no longer able to connect to my offsite server. &nbsp;I can still download mail but after that it locks the machine up by taking 50-75% of the cpu. &nbsp;If I cancel the app and restart it I can work offline with the newly downloaded mail.
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I am running Outlook 2003 on XP Pro, connecting to an offsite exchange server.  This machine has beenworking fine for months prior.  After installing Visio 2003 and patching, I am no longer able to connect to my offsite server.  I can still download mail but after that it locks the machine up by taking 50-75% of the cpu.  If I cancel the app and restart it I can work offline with the newly downloaded mail.

Outlook 2003 not connecting to exchange server after Visio 2003 install

Microsoft Outlook is a personal information manager from Microsoft, available as a part of the Microsoft Office suite. Although often used mainly as an email application, it also includes a calendar, task manager, contact manager, note-taker, journal, and web browser.