RE: Macintosh clients running Outlook 2001 in Classic - Exchange 5.5

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From: warhead (warhead_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 12/01/04 

Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 18:31:02 -0800

hello?

"Rich" wrote:

> Hi, I'm not sure if this is the correct group to post this question on, but
> any pointers would be appreciated.
>
> We have a mixed mode NT 4 and Windows 2000/2003 network in which Exchange
> 5.5 is installed in two sites. One site is running 5.5 on Win2K server, the
> other on NT 4 server. DNS is provided through internal servers on 2003 and
> using forwarders for external names. The Exchange servers have external
> names, and the internal DNS act as secondaries for the DNS domain they
> resolve to.
>
> We have no problems running Outlook 2000 on Win2k or XP clients (only ones
> in use), but on the Mac clients, setup of Outlook 2001 has been problematic
> lately, and clients that are successfully setup get frequent "drops" from
> Exchange.
>
> The Macs are running OS X 10.3.5 or .6 and run Outlook in Classic. A host
> file was made and held over from OS 9, which was needed to resolve the
> Exchange server names on the Macs (I guess since they don't understand
> WINS?). Outlook seemed to be fine on the Macs before we made a change to the
> internal network addressing - we reorganized from having all Internet
> accessible "real" addresses on the internal net, to using an internal
> addressing scheme with a class A network divided into several class B
> networks (don't ask).
>
> Anyone have similar problems with Mac clients disconnecting? So much has
> changed on our net recently that it's hard to pinpoint where the problem
> originates, but the Macs do seem to be resolving the Exchange server names
> correctly.
>
> Thanks
>

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