As we are a small non-profit, I had hoped to be able to run E2007 on S2008 and still have mapped drives and shared folders for my staff. In viewing other posts, it appears that E2007 likes all the memory for itself and does not "play well with others". I had a consultant work on Group Policies, and that's when things seemed to slow down a lot. On another note, and not relevant (maybe it is), MS Office apps all go to "not responding" when trying to "talk" to the server; this can go on for about 10 seconds and finally the document list will appear. My login times to Server 2008 from password to desktop can exceed 30 seconds, and I am running Win7 Pro 64-bit on a Quad Core with 4 GB RAM. I saw a reference to the Windows Resource Manager, which I installed on the server; this utility is not intuitive, nor are the help screens "helpful". As my server has 2 Quad Core processors and 8 GB RAM, is there an easy configuration in the Resource Manage to limit Exchange's memory use, and, hopefully, speed up login times and file access? Thank you.

Through performance manager can you prove that memory is constrained? What is the amount of paging activity? How much of the pagefile is committed and being used? Just because all RAM is allocated doesn't make that the bottleneck.You could be seeing disk bottleneck or something else.How many users? How large are the mail stores? How much mail traffic? How many Exchange transaction logs get generated per day? What else is hitting the disk that might be slowing Exchange down to the point that other things suffer? All questions I'd ask when digging further into this.

Quote: “I had a consultant work on Group Policies, and that's when things seemed to slow down a lot” Which office application has slowed down exactly? By doing what, open the document in the shared folder on the exchange server? Quote: “is there an easy configuration in the Resource Manage to limit Exchange's memory use” To limit the memory usage on the exchange 007 server, you have to modify the value of “msExchESEParamCacheSizeMax”, but it’s not recommended to customize the setting Resources: ESE Database Cache Size in Exchange 2007 Adding RAM to Exchange 2007 Server (Similar case) Exchange Server and Windows Server 2008 Exchange Server and Windows Server 2008, Part II James Luo TechNet Subscriber Support (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/subscriptions/ms788697.aspx) If you have any feedback on our support, please contact tngfb@microsoft.com