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That sounds so ridiculous that I would legitimately write a fake PowerShell script that "compared" the two, and provide my own results.
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$t1 = 11.4
$t2 = 5.1
Write-Host "Accessing Outlook data file [online]. Please wait... " -NoNewLine
Start-Sleep -seconds $t1
Write-Host "$t1 seconds"
Write-Host "Accessing Outlook data file [cached mode]. Please wait... " -NoNewLine
Start-Sleep -seconds $t2
Write-Host "$t2 seconds"
And charge for 3 billable hours
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If you want a serious answer, I would probably try something like this: https://jon.glass/blog/reads-e-mail-with-powershell/
Just add a stopwatch to the script to time how long it takes to access the e-mail in both modes.
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$Stopwatch = [System.Diagnostics.Stopwatch]::StartNew()
#Access Outlook
$Stopwatch.Stop()
#Get the run time, in seconds, to the 2nd decimal point
$Runtime = [math]::Round($Stopwatch.Elapsed.TotalSeconds,2)
j
Unfortunately banks rarely are willing to accept a realistic approach to anything. Ideally they're wanting something they can measure with ControlUp to tell "whether VHDX caching improves performance". Like I said, all you need to do is talk to your users, but apparently that's not doable if you're asking for positive things (they readily listen to them when they are complaining though)
m
I usually look at the Connection Status Box: "Avg Resp Shows the average round trip request or response time for client requests. This value includes server and connection latency. When you consider average response times, larger sample sizes give a truer indication of latency. For example, a large sample size could be 100 request/response pairs." https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/troubleshoot/connectivity/description-of-the-connection-status-dialog-box
j
Ah, that's interesting, that might be a halfway house we could recommend
r
IS it outlook within a session?
j
Yup
r
Couldn't you use full session synthetic monitoring to compare the two setups - something like Automai or eG Enterprise or Tevron - have a step open outlook, read email, send an email, do a bit of scrolling, and so on...?
j
Could do, if I had something like that available 🙂
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r
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cough cough I can give you something tomorrow, for free. You script a simple set of actions and run a couple of tests. That being said, you could equally do it in your lab in a couple of hours. Just DM me if you wanna play.
j
Thanks mate but this customer wouldn't sit still for a trial of something that would help - they're paying for a managed service and expect everything they ask for to be done as part of that. Sure you know the type
l
100% get it, no worries.
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