Outlook Performance Update

Een update over de Outlook Update

Bart Wessels' Blog — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 22:21:28 GMT

Even een update over de Outlook post van afgelopen zondag. Will Kennedy gaf op de Outlook 12 blog extra...

re: Outlook Performance Update

wasserja — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 15:27:02 GMT

WillKennedy,

I heard about this Outlook patch from Ars Technica on Friday and installed it at work on Monday. I haven't noticed much of a speed difference yet, but I was wondering if this was going to be put out as an Automatic Update. We have a WSUS server and I noticed that is wasn't in the list. Maybe it will be part of next month's patches.

re: Outlook Performance Update

wasserja — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 15:30:54 GMT

I do have a question about the change in Public Folder appointments. With Outlook 2007 if I create an appointment in my department's public folder and invite my whole department it does not give me the option to Accept the invitation from Outlook 2007 since I am the "Meeting Organizer." I have to then use my PDA or the webmail to accept the appointment which then adds it to my calendar. Is there a new practice we're supposed to use now?

re: Outlook Performance Update

begood — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 22:09:26 GMT

I have around 60,000 items across Cached Exchange and archived PSTs. About 20,000 on my OST the rest in PSTs.

I have experienced the performance problems mentioned in the post as well as frequent high CPU usage by the outlook process and 100% CPU on my dual core machines as long as 5-10 minutes each time the machine is resuming from suspend while outlook is running. Same behavior on both my laptop and desktop.

In addition the new integrated WDS (which is the reason I was not going back to 2003) will only show the first 30,000 items or so (I index 10 years, and index shows all PSTs fully indexed but when searching directly in 2004 and prior psts no result will come up).

I have installed the update did a restart and this is my experience:

First time outlook crashed immediately on start with the following error (which was sent to MS through error reporting)

AppName: outlook.exe AppVer: 12.0.6014.5000 AppStamp:46031a52

ModName: emsmdb32.dll ModVer: 12.0.4518.1014 ModStamp:45428079

fDebug: 0 Offset: 000cc0dd

Second time oulook started although slow to respond as usual, and messages from exchange folder slow to download(10 mins). Outlook stopped responding when trying to navigate to pst so I forced restart after 5 minutes.

Third time much snappier than before, no more cpu hog also after resume from suspend.

I am now rebuilding indexes in hope that the new update will cause it to include all my items. Will let you know how it goes.

So far, the upgrade seem to address the problems but need few tough runs before it works well. Can't tell if the new hangs are a result of the update or something else.

re: Outlook Performance Update

JasonG — Tue, 08 May 2007 16:23:59 GMT

It's been said that Exchange is moving (hopefully in v13) to SQL as the backend storage.

Maybe Outlook v13 or v14 could go the same path, utilizing some derivative of the compact edition? A side effect win would be much improved interoperability vs. the proprietary pst binary format. :)

Changing the storage engine might not bring huge gains in speed, but the necessity of a thorough redesign of the storage schema surely would.

re: Outlook Performance Update &ERRORCOCE

dunker1 — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 21:12:50 GMT

not much enhancement.. but I deleted VISTA home premium and installed xp pro- now it sings.. except I get this error:

Send test e-mail message: An unknown error occurred, error code: 0x80040607

when trying to test email send , when I do a send receive I get a relay denied..no ssl or outgoing security is set.. hwere do I look for a solution...

kevsharp@writeme.com

re: Outlook Performance Update

mickatdunge — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 13:08:15 GMT

I had the same error 'Send test e-mail message: An unknown error occurred, error code: 0x80040607' with outlook 2007. I changed the settings of my email account (tools, options, mail setup, email accounts - select and change) more settings, outgoing server. I had to change to 'use same settings as my incoming mail server'. 'Test account setting' and then it should lose the error message. Hope this helps - mickatdunge

Another big (IMHO) performance issue

msapc — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 03:13:22 GMT

Hello.

Good to hear that you guys work on Outlook's performance.

For me, the real performance hit in Outlook 2007 (that makes 50%+ of my dissatisfaction, when working with it) is using Word as HTML rendrer. Yeah-yeah, that's an old story and a lot of fuss was already about it.

But this REALLY hits performance a lot, as WinWord process in the background eats significant amount of memory. This also makes preview pane rather useless, because O2007 lags even when previewing plain-text emails!

Now, I rarely use HTML/RTF feats when composing mail (maybe, 1 of 80 emails), so plaintext is OK for me and I agree with added burden of going to options and manually turning "Compose HTML emails" feature every time I need to make something pretty.

The rest of time I have a TOTALLY USELESS Word in the background that eats up my RAM, slows down viewing email and makes no added value when composing emails (actually, makes them even bigger, eating up my traffic expenses).

Is there a way to completely get rid of Word and revert to plain-text compose/MSIE email preview in these cases?

Thanks.

re: Outlook Performance Update

mjwills — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 06:08:50 GMT

Whenever I launch Outlook I get BITS entries being queued up (I can see one appear using bitsadmin.exe /list every time I click Send/Receive in Outlook 2007).

My Outlook connects to three email accounts. Two of them are with a local PST file, and the third is an Exchange connection (accessed over a VPN).

Any suggestions?

(The BITS entries look like below:)

C:\Users\Owner>bitsadmin /list

BITSADMIN version 3.0 [ 7.0.6001 ]

BITS administration utility.

{43D05E0F-318D-4BD0-8687-8B05185F7D3C} 'Microsoft Outlook Offline Address Book'

TRANSIENT_ERROR 0 / 1 0 / UNKNOWN

{F0EF7C0B-4359-41BE-A149-F783586D5B69} 'Microsoft Outlook Offline Address Book'

TRANSIENT_ERROR 0 / 1 0 / UNKNOWN

{F799AAAC-62F1-4A37-AF87-27E76725FF46} 'Microsoft Outlook Offline Address Book'

TRANSIENT_ERROR 0 / 1 0 / UNKNOWN

{5B4A8215-34B6-4A62-9C00-CFDA401D1557} 'Microsoft Outlook Offline Address Book'

CONNECTING 0 / 1 0 / UNKNOWN

{96F41CEB-9042-4533-BEAA-A5ECBED3D7E1} 'Microsoft Outlook Offline Address Book'

QUEUED 0 / 1 0 / UNKNOWN

Listed 5 job(s).