Part 2 of a 2 part post. Part 1 provides a background for Virtual List View (VLV) and the impact on Exchange of disabling this functionality. In this part we’re going to look at some examples of error messages which will be returned from ExBPA and OWA when VLV is disabled.
Test Environment
2 – 2003R2 SP2 dcs
2 – Exchange 2003 – Windows 2003
1 – CCR Windows 2008
2 – HUBCAS Windows 2008
Outlook 2003 SP2
Outlook 2007
All Outlook clients are in online mode
The environment has 90,000+ mailbox or mail-enabled objects
One domain one AD Site
DisableVLVSupport is set to 1
Exchange Best Practice Analyzer (ExBPA)
OWA error message when accessing the default address book
Searching for one user in the address books works fine
OWA for Exchange 2003 works since it does not display the entire address book it only allows you to search for mail or mailbox enable objects
Length of time it takes to open address book with VLV set to 1
Outlook 2003 client– Exchange 2003 mailbox
Address book opened in 2 seconds
Outlook 2007 client – Exchange 2003 mailbox
Address book opened in 1 second
Outlook 2003 client – Exchange 2007 mailbox
Address book opened in 1 second
Outlook 2007 client – Exchange 2007 mailbox
Address book opened in 2 seconds
Change DisableVLV to 0
OWA
Length of time it takes to open address book with VLV set to 0
Outlook 2003 client– Exchange 2003 mailbox
Address book opened in 1 second
Outlook 2007 client – Exchange 2003 mailbox
Address book opened in 1 second
Outlook 2003 client – Exchange 2007 mailbox
Address book opened in 1 second
Outlook 2007 client – Exchange 2007 mailbox
Address book opened in 2 seconds
Reference
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/820864
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc179232.aspx
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc540446.aspx
