Outlook 2007 slow to open

I recently installed Outlook 2007 on a HyperV Windows 2008 R2 server terminal server talking to Exchange 2010 on another HyperV on the same box.

The server is a Dual Xeon with RAID 10 SAS drives pumping out 800Mb/s throughput yet Outlook 2007 would take about 8 seconds to open. Rubbish!

I found by disabling all add-ins in Outlook 2007 the open time was 75% faster – down to 2 seconds. More like it!

To disable the comms add ons do the following:

• Navigate to C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office12
• Find Outlook.exe and then right-click it
• Select Run as administrator
• In Outlook go to Tools > Trust Center
• Select Add-ins on the left side of the window,
• click on the Go button on the bottom.
• Uncheck all add-ins except windows
• OK all the way out
• Restart outlook and notice the difference!

Regards,

Brendan King