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Cached Exchange Mode enabled and global address list - can both work together?

Due to network issues I have informed all office users to enable Cached Exchange Mode on their versios of Outlok to prevent the amount of email transferred each morning.

I have now been informed that doing this will mean the Global address list will not be updated.

Is this correct?
Seems a bit silly if so.

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afflik1923

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OK, been haivng fun all weeekend trying to get to the bottom of sluggish performance across the company.

AS on similar subject, I thought I would expand and get opinions as to whether Cached Exchange mode does actually improve perofmance.
My thought was definetely as you don't have to download all the emails (in some cases 1GB's worth) of emails in the morning, however, on some of the PC's I swithced it on, seemed to go slower!

There could be other issues, perhaps the PC's with it on need better local resouces to store the file locally (in the company the PC's only have 512mb ram), but I thought I woudl get some input.

thanks

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Excellent feedback. I'm there now after a weekend of network monitorring and improving. I've ordered memory for 4 PC's as a test case (2 had only 256). I've actually assured them they will notice some improvement (even when just flipping between Word and Windows etc).

I generally find an increase from 512 (actually 504 available to system) will imrprove overall perceived performance but I hope I am not wrong in this case,
Thanks again.

afflik1923

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All useful answers. I have no way of verifying which is the most accurate answer although all suggesting similar things anyway.
Thanks for the input. I've left it on for some users off for others. however there seems no correlation between those who complain about speed and those who do not.