> Hi all,
>
> I just recently upgraded a number of PCs from OL2003 (connecting to
> Exchange - not cached mode) to Outlook 2007 w/ Business Contact Manager
> (oviously cached mode as this is required...

> We are experiencing the same thing. We are using a shared database on the
> server, set up with the BCM database tool.
> It always happens when you are typing in an email, it will freeze for
> anywhere from 30 secs to a few minutes.
> This may or not be related: none of our computers have been able to install
> the service pack 2 for MS SQL Server 2005 Express edition. Fails every time,
> the error codes are different every time, and none of them link to a helpful
> answer on the MS website.
> All other updates are current, including SP3 for xp, we are not on vista.
> I hope someone from MS is reading this, we will be forced to dump BCM if
> this cannot be fixed very shortly, Outlook is nearly unusable now.
>
>
>
> "Mike" wrote:

>> Hi all,

>

>> I just recently upgraded a number of PCs from OL2003 (connecting to
>> Exchange - not cached mode) to Outlook 2007 w/ Business Contact Manager ...

> On Jun 11, 3:21 pm, sdurman discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>> We are experiencing the same thing. We are using a shared database on the
>> server, set up with the BCM database tool.

> ...

> Same problem.  It is definitely a problem between the cached copy of BCM and
> the server copy.  Our Outlook / Exchange combination works well with cached
> mode and will even work over GPRS connections.  BCM is a different matter.  O
> work at home over an ADSL connection a lot of the time.  If I have BCM
> off-line then performance of Outlook is fine - but I cannot manage some
> critical activities such as email auto-linking.  If I am on-line then BCM
> exchanges approximately 100Mbytes of data with the server every hour!  
> Needles to say everything grinds to a halt and I experience the freezes
> referred to above.  
>
> THIS NEEDS TO BE FIXED
>
>
>
> "Luther" wrote:

>> On Jun 11, 3:21 pm, sdurman discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>>> We are experiencing the same thing. We are using a shared database on the
>>> server, set up with the BCM database tool.
>>> It always happens when you are typing in an email, it will freeze for ...

> On Jun 20, 3:07 pm, dmailer discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>> Same problem. It is definitely a problem between the cached copy of BCM and
>> the server copy. Our Outlook / Exchange combination...

> On Jun 20, 3:07 pm, dmailer discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>> Same problem. It is definitely a problem between the cached copy of BCM and
>> the server copy. Our Outlook / Exchange combination...

> Luther, I disagree.  BCM is not responsive on our gigabit LAN.  The symptoms
> described by the other users in this thread match ours precisely.  Even when
> working locally, connected at gigabit speeds, our BCM is TERRIBLY slow!  The
> entire BCM database slows outlook down to a crawl.  It just took me about 20
> minutes to compose a fairly simple e-mail that should have taken me 3-5
> minutes.  However, ever few words that I type, outlook stops responding and I
> have to sit and wait.  If I click anywhere else in my desktop, it loses all
> of the typed words that occurred after outlook froze.  So I am forced to sit
> here and wait or try to catch it when it's unfrozen.  sqlserver is
> approximately 380MB, and is running my CPU at a very consistent 44-50%% at all
> times.  In other versions of SQL, you can throttle the memory useage but in
> this version of mysql, you can't.
>
> How could Microsoft have released this product with such terrible
> performance?!
>
>
> ...

> Hi all,
>
> I just recently upgraded a number of PCs from OL2003 (connecting to
> Exchange - not cached mode) to Outlook 2007 w/ Business Contact Manager
> (oviously cached mode as this is required).
>
> The BCM database is on a shared PC using the BCM database tool.
>
> I had experimented with one PC taking it off the cached mode and it had made
> things speedy again, but I can't keep it like that due to the need for BCM.
> Any clue what is going on here?  Is it cached mode or BCM causing the issue?
>
> The speed issues range from starting an email reply and having to wait for
> what you type to catch up, to slow response if you click on another folder
> in your mailbox.  It's just hurting the Outlook 2007 experience because
> performance...