Re: Outlook 2003 and XP SP2

From: Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook] (MillyS_at_donteventhinkaboutmailingmemvps.org)
Date: 08/20/04 

Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 14:27:12 -0700

Don't you love admins that change stuff and "forget" to tell the other IT
staff? Anyway, glad to see you have it sorted out.

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to
the (insert latest virus name here) virus, all mail sent to my personal
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After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer, Joe McCann asked:

| Ahh crap.. here's the solution to my problem:
|
| A fellow admin had been playing with the grou policy objects related
| to Office Outlook 2003. In so doing, he set up a policy for "Default
| Location For PST Files" being a remote location. Anyway, once I
| removed this policy all now works just fine.
|
| Thanks for all your patience... it is much appreciated.
|
| Joe
|
|
|
| "Diane Poremsky [MVP]" wrote:
|
||| but it pops up before I've given it my Username and Password. I
||| mean, the User/pass dialog box comes up, and behind it this error
||| message box pops up.
||| So it seems like it's not even trying to talk to the exchange
||| server... certainly it hasn't passed it my credentials yet since
||| I've not inputted them. Right?
|||
||| What do you make of this?
||
|| I think the workstation is passing credentials, but I don't think
|| authentication is the problem, so it really doesn't matter. Since
|| you can access themailbox, it's unlikely to be credential problem.
||
|| What OS is installed and do you have terminal services enabled? If
|| so, find the NoOst key and change it to 1. It should be at
|| HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Outlook\OST I
|| think.
||
|| --
|| Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
|| Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
|| Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)
|| Author, Google and Other Search Engines (Visual QuickStart Guide)
||
|| Outlook Tips: http://www.outlook-tips.net/
|| Outlook & Exchange Solutions Center: http://www.slipstick.com
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||
|| Vote for your favorite Outlook and Exchange utilities in the
|| Slipstick Ratings Raffle at http://www.slipstick.com/contest/
||
|| "Joe McCann" <JoeMcCann@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
|| news:79FF28AF-6BDD-4160-B1BD-525EE8A6C952@microsoft.com...
||| First, thank you for clarifying that one user account can indeed
||| have several
||| different profiles for Outlook, each having their own Exchange
||| Server Account. My mistake, to be sure.
|||
||| I created the new profile (naming it TEST) and added the Exchange
||| Server Account to it using the wizard it prompts me with initially.
||| The same errors
||| occur. I tried changing to "prompt for credentials..." and sure
||| enough, it
||| prompted me for them each time, but returned the same error.
||| Strangely enough, check this out:
|||
||| I have it set to deliver to "Mailbox - Joe McCann", and to prompt
||| for password every time. When I start up Outlook I get the same
||| error ("Unable
||| to open your default e-mail folders" along with some helpful advice
||| about accessing Outlook through a terminal server, which I am not
||| using by the way)
||| but it pops up before I've given it my Username and Password. I
||| mean, the User/pass dialog box comes up, and behind it this error
||| message box pops up.
||| So it seems like it's not even trying to talk to the exchange
||| server... certainly it hasn't passed it my credentials yet since
||| I've not inputted them. Right?
|||
||| What do you make of this?
|||
||| Once more, your help is so greatly appreciated. Thank you thank
||| you thank you!
|||
||| Joe
|||
||| PS: a thread this long will almost surely lead to the most simple
||| of solutions... I can feel it.
|||
|||
|||
||| "Diane Poremsky [MVP]" wrote:
|||
|||| Ok... lets start with the first problem - you are adding accounts
|||| to the profile, not creating a new profile. You can only have one
|||| exchange account
|||| per profile but can have as many profiles as you want. Control
|||| panel, mail,
|||| show profiles is the screen you need to create profiles.
||||
|||| Depending on how you have the workstation hooking into the domain,
|||| if outlook is trying to log onto your mailbox using the workstation
|||| credentials, you'll get the error. I use kerbos/ntlm without issue
|||| - it seems to be the same as None authentication in previous
|||| versions. Try using
|||| the always ask for user/pw option. (Open the profile from either
|||| the control
|||| panel or outlook's tools, email accounts and click on more
|||| settings, then the security tab to get to it.)
||||
|||| it's odd that it let you download mail to a pst but won;t let you
|||| use the mailbox. It should be the same authentication for both.
|||| Did you move the pst
|||| to a different folder or just left OL create it where it wanted it?
|||| --
|||| Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
|||| Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
|||| Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)
|||| Author, Google and Other Search Engines (Visual QuickStart Guide)
||||
|||| Outlook Tips: http://www.outlook-tips.net/
|||| Outlook & Exchange Solutions Center: http://www.slipstick.com
|||| Join OneNote Tips mailing list: http://www.onenote-tips.net/
||||
|||| Vote for your favorite Outlook and Exchange utilities in the
|||| Slipstick Ratings Raffle at http://www.slipstick.com/contest/
||||
|||| "Joe McCann" <JoeMcCann@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
|||| news:1BF18364-3F81-4299-952F-0AE55BA693C6@microsoft.com...
||||| Ok, here's where I'm at now after some more testing...
|||||
||||| I deleted my old profile containing my Exchange Account settings
||||| (because
||||| I
||||| can't add another Exchange account... it returns the error "You
||||| already have
||||| a Microsoft Exchange Server account set up. Outlook supports
||||| only one Exchange Server account at a time"), and added the
||||| account settings again.
|||||
||||| This time, I specified that the delivery location for the Exchange
||||| server
||||| should be my personal folders file, rather than "Mailbox - Joe
||||| McCann". When
||||| I went into Outlook all of my e-mails came pouring in off of the
||||| Exchange
||||| server and are now stored in my Personal Folders file (which is
||||| saved locally).
|||||
||||| If I go into account settings and try to change the delivery
||||| location back
||||| to Mailbox-Joe McCann (thus keeping my e-mail on the Exchange
||||| Server) it
||||| returns the error: "The Specified default store could not be
||||| opened. Please
||||| make sure you can access your default store and try again."
|||||
||||| Bizarre! Why can't it seem to communicate with Exchange?
|||||
||||| Thanks a million for the help... it is much appreciated.
|||||
||||| Cheers.
|||||
||||| joe
|||||
|||||
||||| "Diane Poremsky [MVP]" wrote:
|||||
||||||| Recall that this is a Microsoft Exchange enabled profile, so I
||||||| can't create
||||||| a new profile (in the same user account) using Exchange without
||||||| first
||||||| deleting the old one.
||||||
|||||| Why not? Click the add button and make one - call it Test.
||||||
||||||| When I try to "remove" the old profile using the MAIL
||||||| icon in COntrol Panel(the one I created with the wizard the
||||||| first time
||||||| I
||||||| ran
||||||| Outlook 2003 with this user account on this machine) I get this
||||||| error:
||||||| "You cannot delete the account containing your mail, contacts
||||||| and calendar.
||||||| You will first need to create a new location for your personal
||||||| data.
||||||
|||||| Are you creating a new profile or a new message store in the
|||||| existing profile?
||||||
|||||| Do you have a terminal session running on the machine? Are you
|||||| using cached
|||||| mode?
||||||
|||||| --
|||||| Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
|||||| Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
|||||| Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)
|||||| Author, Google and Other Search Engines (Visual QuickStart Guide)
||||||
|||||| Outlook Tips: http://www.outlook-tips.net/
|||||| Outlook & Exchange Solutions Center: http://www.slipstick.com
|||||| Join OneNote Tips mailing list: http://www.onenote-tips.net/
||||||
|||||| Vote for your favorite Outlook and Exchange utilities in the
|||||| Slipstick Ratings Raffle at http://www.slipstick.com/contest/
||||||
|||||| "Joe McCann" <JoeMcCann@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
|||||| message
|||||| news:E1C11B53-E040-4E10-85EF-4472FA6AE88E@microsoft.com...
||||||| Oh yes.
|||||||
||||||| Recall that this is a Microsoft Exchange enabled profile, so I
||||||| can't create
||||||| a new profile (in the same user account) using Exchange without
||||||| first
||||||| deleting the old one. When I try to "remove" the old profile
||||||| using the
||||||| MAIL
||||||| icon in COntrol Panel(the one I created with the wizard the
||||||| first time
||||||| I
||||||| ran
||||||| Outlook 2003 with this user account on this machine) I get this
||||||| error:
||||||| "You cannot delete the account containing your mail, contacts
||||||| and calendar.
||||||| You will first need to create a new location for your personal
||||||| data. Fromt
||||||| he File menu, click Data File Management, and then click Add."
||||||| So, if I do all of that, making a PST file (or is it OST now? I
||||||| can't
||||||| remember) Ic an get into outlook just fine. Then I try to add
||||||| the exchange-enabled aspect again (which can be added without
||||||| problem), but
||||||| then
||||||| I can't "expand" its folder list.
|||||||
||||||| It's as though I can't communicate with Exchange for some
||||||| reason!? Only
||||||| on
||||||| this XP SP2 box... the rest of the network (production
||||||| environment) is
||||||| working just fine.
|||||||
||||||| Weird stuff.
|||||||
||||||| Any more ideas? Thanks in advance.
|||||||
||||||| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
|||||||
|||||||| Have you tried creating a new mail profile?
||||||||
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|||||||| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||||||||
|||||||| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact.
|||||||| Due to
|||||||| the (insert latest virus name here) virus, all mail sent to my
|||||||| personal
|||||||| account will be deleted without reading.
||||||||
|||||||| After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer, Joe
|||||||| McCann asked:
||||||||
||||||||| How do I change the authentication?
|||||||||
||||||||| I can't get into Outlook at all, so I do not have the
||||||||| opportunity to change any settings therein. When I configure
||||||||| the account settings using the "Mail" icon in COntrol Panel
||||||||| there is no explicit "authentication method" header, but I
||||||||| can change between NTLM/Kerberos, Kerbos, and NTLM. Those
||||||||| are the three options. I have tried all three and I get the
||||||||| same error.
|||||||||
||||||||| Any other ideas? Thanks for the help.. your input is much
||||||||| appreciated :-)
|||||||||
||||||||| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
|||||||||
|||||||||| What do you have set for the authentication type? I just
|||||||||| reinstalled a laptop with XP SP-2 and Office XP (for use in
|||||||||| answering questions in news groups - I much prefer Office
|||||||||| 2003). If you set the authentication to None, does it work?
||||||||||
|||||||||| --
|||||||||| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||||||||||
|||||||||| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact.
|||||||| Due
|||||||| to
|||||||||| the (insert latest virus name here) virus, all mail sent to
|||||||||| my personal account will be deleted without reading.
||||||||||
|||||||||| After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer, Joe
|||||||||| McCann asked:
||||||||||
||||||||||| I've recently taken a dummy machine and formatted it,
||||||||||| reinstalling XP SP2 (from a slipstreamed CD) and started
||||||||||| from scratch. The computer exists in a domain in an
||||||||||| organizational unit having applied to it a GPO preventing
||||||||||| the use of Windows Firewall. Everything works great,
||||||||||| firewall is administratively disabled, but...
||||||||||| Microsoft Outlook 2003 (SP1) seemingly can't connect to
||||||||||| the Exchange (2003) server. During the initial "add
||||||||||| account" wizard it resolves the user names to their "full
||||||||||| name" just fine (and netbios server name to FQDN), but the
||||||||||| next step returns the error:
|||||||||||
||||||||||| "Unable to open your defualt e-mail folders."
||||||||||| This error can occur if you attempt to run Outlook from a
||||||||||| Terminal Server session when the OST file is in use by the
||||||||||| console session. To access this instance of Outlook, exit
||||||||||| the current Terminal Server session and start a new session
||||||||||| by using the following Run command (click Start, then click
||||||||||| Run):
||||||||||| mstsc.exe /CONSOLE
|||||||||||
||||||||||| The error seems to think that I'm trying to run Outlook
||||||||||| 2003 from a terminal server session, which I am most
||||||||||| assuredly not.
|||||||||||
||||||||||| Any ideas? Outlook 2003 sp1 works fine on all other
||||||||||| machines without xp sp2.
|||||||||||
||||||||||| Thanks for the help!! You're great for replying.