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How Siebel CRM Desktop Manages Synchronization Duration

Several factors determine the duration of a synchronization, such as the amount of data that is available to the user, network bandwidth, server performance, client performance, and so on. To shorten this duration, you or the user can do the following:

• You can modify the application configuration. For more information, see Controlling Synchronization.
• The user can adjust settings through the synchronization filter dialog box. For more information, see How Filters Reduce the Data That Siebel CRM Desktop Synchronizes.

The duration of an incremental synchronization session is typically shorter than for an initial synchronization because CRM Desktop downloads all objects during an initial synchronization but during an incremental synchronization it only downloads the objects that changed since the last synchronization.