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Natalie Gagliordi

Until 2021, Natalie Gagliordi was a senior writer for Red Ventures based in Louisville, Kentucky, covering business technology for ZDNET.

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David Jones: Notes client: email performance too slow?

David Jones: Notes client: email performance too slow?

David Jones discusses how he addressedNotes client performance perception issues...It'sbeen about a year since we got them on a Domino server and we probablyhave about 25-30 users on the Notes client now - mostly within the lastmonth. It's a newspaper so they deal with a lot of attachments and we hearda lot of complaints on Notes being slow and how it becomes useless whensending an email (because of the slow connection they have and they haveto wait for the email to send before being able to do anything). In hindsight,it would have been better to have a Notes server at their physical locationbut being locked into those i5 520s, can't really do that now.Yesterday my boss, the IT Manager...andI went to the newspaper and configured most of the clients with some settingsthat should increase the performance. The changes are simple and the userworks off of a local replica of their mail instead of the server.Hundredsof Notes deployments have hundreds of different ways of optimizing clientconfigurations for low-bandwidth environments.  David has come upwith some common ones -- run off a local replica, use a local directoryfor typeahead, etc.  Do you have others?

October 28, 2005 by in Collaboration