Showing posts with label Latency. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Latency. Show all posts

20 July 2019

Outlook 2013/2016: How Microsoft Outlook (MAPI over HTTP) works with network delays

A long time ago I read an article of Neil Johnson on TechNet about research on the effects of network latency and different Outlook operating modes (Online, RPC/HTTP, Cached).
Since then, it took 8 years, changed several generations of server client applications and most important is that Exchange now use newest "MAPI over HTTP" protocol. I propose to do several tests to check what has changed during this time.

As a generator of interference on the network, I used a simple, but very functional tool - http://jagt.github.io/clumsy/.

08 November 2018

Exchange 2016 - Limits and impact of Transport Rules (Mailflow Rules)

Sometimes, to solve complex problems, you have to use transport rules. But what are the limitations of this functionality?
I decided to cover 2 questions:

Part 1. How big may the transport rule be?

All transport rules are stored in the "CN=TransportVersioned,CN=Rules,CN=Transport Settings,CN=<Organization>,CN=Microsoft Exchange,CN=Services,CN=Configuration,DC=<domain>,DC=<domain>" container. The rule itself is a XML that is stored in the "msExchTransportRuleXml" attribute.