I have 10 computers that are all accessing the same email address using outlook directly from the provider and they download it to their machines. Currently the outlook file size is 10GB big because of the amount of emails. Thus the workstations run extremely slow. Would moving to an exchange server speed things up? If not any suggestions?

Move all mail accordingly year wise to pst.Current one u make it live.Rest keep it in server and whoever is asking old mail configure it on their pc. -bpara

Hi That's a really hard question to answer to without knowing any details about your network, systems etc Pst files is a workaround, but they can easily get corrupted.. Having the mail solution locally (LAN) will give you good speed and low latency with good network infrastructureJonas Andersson MCTS: Microsoft Exchange Server 2007/2010 | MCITP: EMA 2007/2010 | MCSE/MCSA Blog: http://www.testlabs.se/blog

I want to say something about Mr.jonas suggestion.Even in lan if u access 10 GB of file by 10 users do u think is it reliable? -bpara

It's still better than doing it over a WAN connection But there will probably be delays and latency even on LAN connectionJonas Andersson MCTS: Microsoft Exchange Server 2007/2010 | MCITP: EMA 2007/2010 | MCSE/MCSA Blog: http://www.testlabs.se/blog

Hi, As per complete studying all threads of this post the conclusion is 01. PST is the good option for archiving. 02. Its also in practice that PST get corrupted normally. 03. Mr. Bpara is also right that from LAN if 10 users will access 10 GB of data thats mean 100 GB. So I will advise you that make PSTs and get backup on tape or even some other media which is reliable than HDD or LAN and get them in your archive so when anybody asks about his / her mails you will be able to give him / her mails easily. I hope this will help you. Regards. Shafaquat Ali.M.C.I.T.P Exchange 2007/2010, M.C.I.T.P Windows Server 2008, M.C.T.S OCS Server 2007 R2, URL: http://blog.WhatDoUC.net Phone: +923008210320