WMDC 6.1, Office Ultimate, Vista UIltimate(64 bit), Windows Mobile

[Guest tahirs]

I have a Quad core system, 4gb memory running Vista Ultimate and Office

Ultimate. A HTC S710 running Windows Mobile 6. I just loaded WMDC earlier

today from the Microsoft web site and have major performance problems with

it. So far it's taken 2+ hours for a full sync of my contacts....never mind

calendar etc.

Previous on Win XP Pro with Office Ultimate and the latest version of

ACtiveSync a full, clean update would take around 30 minutes (on a much older

PC).

I must say I am very disappointed with the synchronisation between mobile

and Office on Vista - performance sucks. Looking at Task Manager, nothing of

any significance is running - WMDC is there grabbing around 70MB memory, but

not much CPU time.

Al Updates are installed. Is this the normal terrible performance wor WMDC,

or is something broken? ActiveSync was limited, but certainly very efficient

and performed well.

 

Thanks

Tahir

[Guest Carlos]

RE: WMDC 6.1, Office Ultimate, Vista UIltimate(64 bit), Windows Mobile

 

Hi,

Two questions come to my mind:

1.- Are you using an USB 2.0 port for sync?

2.- What items are you syncing? Maybe you have checked some unnecessary

items beyond the usual ones (contacts, etc.).

Carlos

 

"tahirs" wrote:

> I have a Quad core system, 4gb memory running Vista Ultimate and Office

> Ultimate. A HTC S710 running Windows Mobile 6. I just loaded WMDC earlier

> today from the Microsoft web site and have major performance problems with

> it. So far it's taken 2+ hours for a full sync of my contacts....never mind

> calendar etc.

> Previous on Win XP Pro with Office Ultimate and the latest version of

> ACtiveSync a full, clean update would take around 30 minutes (on a much older

> PC).

> I must say I am very disappointed with the synchronisation between mobile

> and Office on Vista - performance sucks. Looking at Task Manager, nothing of

> any significance is running - WMDC is there grabbing around 70MB memory, but

> not much CPU time.

> Al Updates are installed. Is this the normal terrible performance wor WMDC,

> or is something broken? ActiveSync was limited, but certainly very efficient

> and performed well.

>

> Thanks

> Tahir

>

[Guest tahirs]

RE: WMDC 6.1, Office Ultimate, Vista UIltimate(64 bit), Windows Mo

 

RE: WMDC 6.1, Office Ultimate, Vista UIltimate(64 bit), Windows Mo

 

Yes - using USB 2.0 and syncing contacts(approx 1500), tasks (zero), calendar

(past two months), files (zero there also). Not doing email as I have a

separate POP account that I download to Outlook on my PC. If I sync it I end

up with mail.com POP download via GPRS and a separate Outlook download from

the PC sync.

 

Still syncing away - probably about 3 hours now......

 

"Carlos" wrote:

> Hi,

> Two questions come to my mind:

> 1.- Are you using an USB 2.0 port for sync?

> 2.- What items are you syncing? Maybe you have checked some unnecessary

> items beyond the usual ones (contacts, etc.).

> Carlos

>

> "tahirs" wrote:

>

> > I have a Quad core system, 4gb memory running Vista Ultimate and Office

> > Ultimate. A HTC S710 running Windows Mobile 6. I just loaded WMDC earlier

> > today from the Microsoft web site and have major performance problems with

> > it. So far it's taken 2+ hours for a full sync of my contacts....never mind

> > calendar etc.

> > Previous on Win XP Pro with Office Ultimate and the latest version of

> > ACtiveSync a full, clean update would take around 30 minutes (on a much older

> > PC).

> > I must say I am very disappointed with the synchronisation between mobile

> > and Office on Vista - performance sucks. Looking at Task Manager, nothing of

> > any significance is running - WMDC is there grabbing around 70MB memory, but

> > not much CPU time.

> > Al Updates are installed. Is this the normal terrible performance wor WMDC,

> > or is something broken? ActiveSync was limited, but certainly very efficient

> > and performed well.

> >

> > Thanks

> > Tahir

> >

[Guest KevinD]

Re: WMDC 6.1, Office Ultimate, Vista UIltimate(64 bit), Windows Mo

 

Re: WMDC 6.1, Office Ultimate, Vista UIltimate(64 bit), Windows Mo

 

Hello,

 

We have a very similar setup. I am running:

 

1. Windows Vista Ultimate 64 Bit.

2. AT&T tilt phone which is an HTC Windows Mobile 6 phone.

3. Office 2007 Business Edition.

 

I found that my firewall was not properly configured for the phone to sync.

I use Window Live One Care and had to manually open several ports for it to

work with my phone and WMDC. It turns out not to be the same settings as

Active Sync as the Firewall was automatically configured to deal with that.

 

Now my PC will sync with the phone in just over a minute. I sync about 500

contacts and hundreds of media files (music, TV, etc.) to the memory card in

the device.

 

Assuming you are running a software firewall I would check to make sure it

is not the problem, if there is a knowledge base you can access for that

product you might get some help with making changes to it's configuration.

If you are running OneCare I can send you the manual settings needed to make

it work.

 

"tahirs" <tahirs@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:85181DA1-AEFC-4814-9947-69E9C363C1B0@microsoft.com...

> Yes - using USB 2.0 and syncing contacts(approx 1500), tasks (zero),

> calendar

> (past two months), files (zero there also). Not doing email as I have a

> separate POP account that I download to Outlook on my PC. If I sync it I

> end

> up with mail.com POP download via GPRS and a separate Outlook download

> from

> the PC sync.

>

> Still syncing away - probably about 3 hours now......

>

> "Carlos" wrote:

>

>> Hi,

>> Two questions come to my mind:

>> 1.- Are you using an USB 2.0 port for sync?

>> 2.- What items are you syncing? Maybe you have checked some unnecessary

>> items beyond the usual ones (contacts, etc.).

>> Carlos

>>

>> "tahirs" wrote:

>>

>> > I have a Quad core system, 4gb memory running Vista Ultimate and Office

>> > Ultimate. A HTC S710 running Windows Mobile 6. I just loaded WMDC

>> > earlier

>> > today from the Microsoft web site and have major performance problems

>> > with

>> > it. So far it's taken 2+ hours for a full sync of my contacts....never

>> > mind

>> > calendar etc.

>> > Previous on Win XP Pro with Office Ultimate and the latest version of

>> > ACtiveSync a full, clean update would take around 30 minutes (on a much

>> > older

>> > PC).

>> > I must say I am very disappointed with the synchronisation between

>> > mobile

>> > and Office on Vista - performance sucks. Looking at Task Manager,

>> > nothing of

>> > any significance is running - WMDC is there grabbing around 70MB

>> > memory, but

>> > not much CPU time.

>> > Al Updates are installed. Is this the normal terrible performance wor

>> > WMDC,

>> > or is something broken? ActiveSync was limited, but certainly very

>> > efficient

>> > and performed well.

>> >

>> > Thanks

>> > Tahir

>> >

[Guest tahirs]

Re: WMDC 6.1, Office Ultimate, Vista UIltimate(64 bit), Windows Mo

 

Re: WMDC 6.1, Office Ultimate, Vista UIltimate(64 bit), Windows Mo

 

Thanks Kevin - it did finally complete. When I came back to it this morning

it was all synced - took about 10 hours..... Sync's since then have been

fast i.e. with a couple of changes.

I dread it if I ever need to delete teh Partnership and start again.

 

I'm using Norton 360 for firewall, so will take a look on tehir support web

site for any tips relating to Vista or WMDC.

 

Regards

Tahir

 

 

"KevinD" wrote:

> Hello,

>

> We have a very similar setup. I am running:

>

> 1. Windows Vista Ultimate 64 Bit.

> 2. AT&T tilt phone which is an HTC Windows Mobile 6 phone.

> 3. Office 2007 Business Edition.

>

> I found that my firewall was not properly configured for the phone to sync.

> I use Window Live One Care and had to manually open several ports for it to

> work with my phone and WMDC. It turns out not to be the same settings as

> Active Sync as the Firewall was automatically configured to deal with that.

>

> Now my PC will sync with the phone in just over a minute. I sync about 500

> contacts and hundreds of media files (music, TV, etc.) to the memory card in

> the device.

>

> Assuming you are running a software firewall I would check to make sure it

> is not the problem, if there is a knowledge base you can access for that

> product you might get some help with making changes to it's configuration.

> If you are running OneCare I can send you the manual settings needed to make

> it work.

>

> "tahirs" <tahirs@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

> news:85181DA1-AEFC-4814-9947-69E9C363C1B0@microsoft.com...

> > Yes - using USB 2.0 and syncing contacts(approx 1500), tasks (zero),

> > calendar

> > (past two months), files (zero there also). Not doing email as I have a

> > separate POP account that I download to Outlook on my PC. If I sync it I

> > end

> > up with mail.com POP download via GPRS and a separate Outlook download

> > from

> > the PC sync.

> >

> > Still syncing away - probably about 3 hours now......

> >

> > "Carlos" wrote:

> >

> >> Hi,

> >> Two questions come to my mind:

> >> 1.- Are you using an USB 2.0 port for sync?

> >> 2.- What items are you syncing? Maybe you have checked some unnecessary

> >> items beyond the usual ones (contacts, etc.).

> >> Carlos

> >>

> >> "tahirs" wrote:

> >>

> >> > I have a Quad core system, 4gb memory running Vista Ultimate and Office

> >> > Ultimate. A HTC S710 running Windows Mobile 6. I just loaded WMDC

> >> > earlier

> >> > today from the Microsoft web site and have major performance problems

> >> > with

> >> > it. So far it's taken 2+ hours for a full sync of my contacts....never

> >> > mind

> >> > calendar etc.

> >> > Previous on Win XP Pro with Office Ultimate and the latest version of

> >> > ACtiveSync a full, clean update would take around 30 minutes (on a much

> >> > older

> >> > PC).

> >> > I must say I am very disappointed with the synchronisation between

> >> > mobile

> >> > and Office on Vista - performance sucks. Looking at Task Manager,

> >> > nothing of

> >> > any significance is running - WMDC is there grabbing around 70MB

> >> > memory, but

> >> > not much CPU time.

> >> > Al Updates are installed. Is this the normal terrible performance wor

> >> > WMDC,

> >> > or is something broken? ActiveSync was limited, but certainly very

> >> > efficient

> >> > and performed well.

> >> >

> >> > Thanks

> >> > Tahir

> >> >

[Guest Greg]

Re: WMDC 6.1, Office Ultimate, Vista UIltimate(64 bit), Windows Mo

 

Re: WMDC 6.1, Office Ultimate, Vista UIltimate(64 bit), Windows Mo

 

I am currently making a backup of the 68GB of data files on Quad 5130

6GB, Ultimate x64, and taking 12 hours.

 

Earlier I made a clone of C partition in 40 minutes, which . In both

cases, Norton Ghost 12 using a couple new 500GB WD drives.

 

Seems like compression is eating up 25% cpu resources during this. And I

still need/want to create a recovery DVD.

 

I didn't like NIS 2007 but after getting tired of AVG Suite, Norton has

done a good job on NIS 2008. I just didn't want or realize if Norton 360

was for me (a la carte seemed the way to go) but Acronis TI 11 didn't

work, but DataBackupPC (Prosoft) was my other choice for backups. I had

a corrupt file and Ghost would just sit there (half an hour w/o

movement) and not proceed and no idea why, until I noticed twice same

file and worked after deleting. (and I've scanned the drive for errors

and bad blocks).

 

I'm sure future backups will go quickly as well. My biggest concern was,

will I need to do this again? and if files are modified during the 12

hours. Seems like it could cause a problem if something is added/deleted

or modified.

 

 

"tahirs" <tahirs@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:2B68C676-3F6B-45E0-AE48-CDC1E8CE6767@microsoft.com...

> Thanks Kevin - it did finally complete. When I came back to it this

> morning

> it was all synced - took about 10 hours..... Sync's since then have

> been

> fast i.e. with a couple of changes.

> I dread it if I ever need to delete teh Partnership and start again.

>

> I'm using Norton 360 for firewall, so will take a look on tehir

> support web

> site for any tips relating to Vista or WMDC.

>

> Regards

> Tahir

>

>

> "KevinD" wrote:

>

>> Hello,

>>

>> We have a very similar setup. I am running:

>>

>> 1. Windows Vista Ultimate 64 Bit.

>> 2. AT&T tilt phone which is an HTC Windows Mobile 6 phone.

>> 3. Office 2007 Business Edition.

>>

>> I found that my firewall was not properly configured for the phone to

>> sync.

>> I use Window Live One Care and had to manually open several ports for

>> it to

>> work with my phone and WMDC. It turns out not to be the same

>> settings as

>> Active Sync as the Firewall was automatically configured to deal with

>> that.

>>

>> Now my PC will sync with the phone in just over a minute. I sync

>> about 500

>> contacts and hundreds of media files (music, TV, etc.) to the memory

>> card in

>> the device.

>>

>> Assuming you are running a software firewall I would check to make

>> sure it

>> is not the problem, if there is a knowledge base you can access for

>> that

>> product you might get some help with making changes to it's

>> configuration.

>> If you are running OneCare I can send you the manual settings needed

>> to make

>> it work.

>>

>> "tahirs" <tahirs@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

>> news:85181DA1-AEFC-4814-9947-69E9C363C1B0@microsoft.com...

>> > Yes - using USB 2.0 and syncing contacts(approx 1500), tasks

>> > (zero),

>> > calendar

>> > (past two months), files (zero there also). Not doing email as I

>> > have a

>> > separate POP account that I download to Outlook on my PC. If I

>> > sync it I

>> > end

>> > up with mail.com POP download via GPRS and a separate Outlook

>> > download

>> > from

>> > the PC sync.

>> >

>> > Still syncing away - probably about 3 hours now......

>> >

>> > "Carlos" wrote:

>> >

>> >> Hi,

>> >> Two questions come to my mind:

>> >> 1.- Are you using an USB 2.0 port for sync?

>> >> 2.- What items are you syncing? Maybe you have checked some

>> >> unnecessary

>> >> items beyond the usual ones (contacts, etc.).

>> >> Carlos

>> >>

>> >> "tahirs" wrote:

>> >>

>> >> > I have a Quad core system, 4gb memory running Vista Ultimate and

>> >> > Office

>> >> > Ultimate. A HTC S710 running Windows Mobile 6. I just loaded

>> >> > WMDC

>> >> > earlier

>> >> > today from the Microsoft web site and have major performance

>> >> > problems

>> >> > with

>> >> > it. So far it's taken 2+ hours for a full sync of my

>> >> > contacts....never

>> >> > mind

>> >> > calendar etc.

>> >> > Previous on Win XP Pro with Office Ultimate and the latest

>> >> > version of

>> >> > ACtiveSync a full, clean update would take around 30 minutes (on

>> >> > a much

>> >> > older

>> >> > PC).

>> >> > I must say I am very disappointed with the synchronisation

>> >> > between

>> >> > mobile

>> >> > and Office on Vista - performance sucks. Looking at Task

>> >> > Manager,

>> >> > nothing of

>> >> > any significance is running - WMDC is there grabbing around 70MB

>> >> > memory, but

>> >> > not much CPU time.

>> >> > Al Updates are installed. Is this the normal terrible

>> >> > performance wor

>> >> > WMDC,

>> >> > or is something broken? ActiveSync was limited, but certainly

>> >> > very

>> >> > efficient

>> >> > and performed well.

>> >> >

>> >> > Thanks

>> >> > Tahir

>> >> >