Exchange / slowness lockup send recieve

Greeting wise windows guys,

I have an exchange server which only has about 65 people on it. I run wsus and a product called mail frontier (spam filter). recently we have been having issues on send / recieve where it takes a long time and can lockup peoples PC's. I was wondering if one, does anyone know if an outlook patch has caused other issues for this, and two what can be done to fine tune this server. I have increased the disk size so i only am using aobu 50% of the disk space and i have increased it from 1 gig to 3 gigs of ram, i do have a second procesor on the way but i just dont see where this should be causing issues. I have ran the msdiag tool for exchange and come on with minimal errors, some disk bottle necking?

Your thoughts?

 

Exchange Problems

Hi ya.

Its doesnt sounds like the server is having the problem. Do you have any network issues at all ? Is your DNS working properly. How do your clients address the exchange server by host name or IP address ? Try IP address and see if its any quicker. Is cache turned on on your outlook clients ?

You can also set the dianostics in exchange system manager to log to application event log, are there any obvious warnings or errors, i.e. with authentication or client connections.

Cheers

Pete

 

Chech the event view on your exchange, Active directory, and DNS/domain controller servers.

I've had that problem in the past it turned out that the Active Directory server was getting pegged with multiple requests (plus it hasn't been shut down in over 8 months). Event viewer is your friend.