Outlook::Windows XP SP2::Enable RPC Polling

The Outlook Find feature and the new mail notifications do not work after you apply Windows XP Service Pack 2: "SYMPTOMS
After you apply Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) on your computer, you may notice that the following behaviors occur in Microsoft Outlook:•When you connect to a Microsoft Exchange Server-based computer and receive a new e-mail message, you are not prompted with a notification, and the new e-mail message does not automatically appear in your Inbox. If you click Send/Receive or another Outlook folder, and then you click your Inbox folder to update the Outlook message pane, any new e-mail messages that you have will appear.
•When you try to send an e-mail message in Outlook, the e-mail message may remain in your Outbox folder longer than expected. Or, there may be a delay before the e-mail message is sent."

XADM: Description of the MAPI Client Connection Polling of an Exchange Server: "This article describes the MAPI client connection polling that is performed at regular intervals by a MAPI client to verify the connection with an Exchange server"

Windows::XP::Registry

Default user desktop appearance
This is located in the registry under:
HKEY USERS\ . DEFAULT\Control Panel\
Desktop - has the desktop background settings
Colors - contains color settings
Etc.

TCP/IP and NBT configuration parameters for Windows XP
PREVENT FRAGMENTATION
set MTU size to the same or lesser than the router along the tracert with the smallest MTU allowed.

Find the smallest MTU allowed in the route by process of elimination using:
ping -l ____ server.domain.com -f

(-l = lower case L and means to use ____ packet size, -f means do not fragment.)

I found:
1413 and greater => "needs fragmented" response
1412 - 1395 => timeout response
1394 and lower => response received.