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I'm in desperate need of help. My company is all Windows and I have the only mac (yeah, i'm the marketing/design guy). I'm running OSX, latest-greatest with all of the updates on a Windows network. IT just upgrader their servers and eversince then I have had all kinds of problems. The network is super slow on the Mac but the PC in my office is not affected that much. I sometimes lose network conection on the Mac all together and have to manually GO get the servers again. On big pain is that I can send email (using Mac Mail) inside the company but I can't send anything outside. I have to use webmail for that.
Oddly, the PC was also affected. Some network speed was restored using manual IPs but get this... Photoshop will not save to the server from the PC. It does fine on the Mac apart from the ultra slow server response but on the PC I have to save files to the local HD then move them to the server manualy.
My IT network guy is no help. He is threatening to pull my mac and his only solution for the PC was to wipe it clean and re-install everything. He just took the PC today so I don't know if it is going to work or not (I have my doubts) and it's going to cause me productivity problems.
I haven't been able to find anything on Apple's or Microsoft's site that seems related. (SHAME on Apple for having les info on mac intigration to Windows networks than Microsoft BTW)
Here's the network set up:
OS > Windows Server 2003 Enterprise with Service Pack 1 (Completely Patched with all updates as of 12-06-06)
Mail > Exchange 2003 Enterprise with Service Pack 2
All servers have Duel 3.2 GHz Intel Xeon Processors
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance

Hi Mike!
Up front I don't think you'll resolve all your answers without a Mac/Windows consultant. You've got too many variables in the mix for someone to be able to comprehensively answer all your questions plus you're possibly going to need some assistance from your IT guys because some things may be out of your control. A consultant would be able to speak Tech-ese for you.
With that said, here are some ideas...
1. For network speed issues, ask your IT guys if your network switch port has been forced to a particular speed/duplex or if it is set to Auto. Macs hate to be forced. You want Auto.
2. I suggest using Microsoft Entourage 2004 over Apple's Mail application. Mail is using IMAP and SMTP to connect to your Exchange server. Entourage uses WebDAV, which allows you to take advantage of calendaring and public folders too. You've got webmail access, which means Entourage should work for you. Enterprise licensing for Exchange includes Entourage. Or if you have Office for Mac then Entourage is included.
3. I suggest not using Mac OS X's built-in SMB client. It's clunky and doesn't play well with Windows servers for regular use. Invest in Dave or ADMitMac from http://www.thursby.com. It may very well help you with multiple network issues. A trial version is available for you to evaluate it first.
Hope this helps! bill
1 GHz Powerbook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.8)

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