[tkiely]

Have just moved from the beta on two pcs to the RC on 120 pcs.

The beta had some odd bits like not allowing certain links to work, inc the link on this site to the home page!!! but otherwise was stable. The RC is working fine so far.

One interesting thing emerged but really was not the fault of the SP. We run exchange with Office 2003 ie Outlook 2003. The default install runs Outlook in cached mode. To cut the story short we have noticed users complaining of slow delivery of emails. You have to remember that my users are uber geek software developers who email the person sitting opposite rather than talk to them so they notice these things.

We found that if the XP firewall is turned on ( default in SP2) it seems to break the connection with Exchange and Outlook turns to polling the server on an elapsed time basis. Turn the firewall off and your instant delivery returns????????

to be fair, experimenting with an un-sp'ed XP proved that this happens with the original firewall too. After all the faf of deducing that I havnt tried it with ZA, perhaps someone would like to experiment?

T