Sherif, have you changed your anti-virus setup at all? This can be caused when the AV software scans the user's mailbox and delays access to the information store. However, it usually goes away after the first time. Just curious, why do your uses need to press the send/receive button? Are your clients connected in MAPI (Exchange Server) mode, with mail delivery to their mailbox? Greg Lara ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------- This e-mail message may contain privileged, confidential and/or proprietary information intended only for the person(s) named. If you are not the intended recipient, please destroy this message, and any attachments, and notify the sender by return e-mail. If you are not the intended recipient(s), or the employee or agent responsible for delivering the message to the intended recipient(s), you are hereby notified that any dissemination, disclosure or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------- _____ From: Sherif Shiha [mailto:sh_shiha@xxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2004 6:56 AM To: [ExchangeList] Subject: [exchangelist] Outlook Clients with E2K login delay & freeze http://www.MSExchange.org/ Dear All, Anyone seen this before ? Microsoft outlook clients when trying to connect to the Exchange corporate server it freezes for a while ( about 10 to 20 seconds ) then it says server is not available ( try again or work offline ) and when choosing try again it connects to the server , and when first pressing the send/receive button it freezes again for about the same period . and then it works all fine as long as the outlook is still running . Its the first time to see such problem on my server since 3 years ago.. Note: it happened after installing the last critical updates published by MS last week, and tried to uninstall them , but still same problem... Any Idea what causes this freezing and delay ?? Thanks in advance for your help... Sherif ------------------------------------------------------ List Archives: http://www.webelists.com/cgi/lyris.pl?enter=exchangelist Exchange Newsletters: http://www.msexchange.org/pages/newsletter.asp Exchange FAQ: http://www.msexchange.org/pages/larticle.asp?type=FAQ ------------------------------------------------------ Other Internet Software Marketing Sites: World of Windows Networking: http://www.windowsnetworking.com Leading Network Software Directory: http://www.serverfiles.com No.1 ISA Server Resource Site: http://www.isaserver.org Windows Security Resource Site: http://www.windowsecurity.com/ Network Security Library: http://www.secinf.net/ Windows 2000/NT Fax Solutions: http://www.ntfaxfaq.com ------------------------------------------------------ You are currently subscribed to this MSEXchange.org Discussion List as: glara@xxxxxxx To unsubscribe visit http://www.webelists.com/cgi/lyris.pl?enter=exchangelist Report abuse to listadmin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx