Re: Outlook 2001 and Exchange 2003

From: William Smith (mecklists_at_REMOVETHIS.mn.rr.com)
Date: 07/23/04 

Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 21:08:10 -0500

In article <22c301c47004$39960690$a501280a@phx.gbl>,
 "Richard" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

> I do get the correct IP from a PC, it resolves to the
> mail server.
> I read one of the other posts that you suggested to
> delete the Exchange files/folders in the System ->
> Preferences. i did this and i recreated the profile and
> it connected, but then again after closing it i am unable
> to re-open it.
> Since we upgraded to Exchange 2003 from 5.5 we started to
> have these problems. Is their something at the Exchange
> level that is not correct? The other major change that
> occurred before the exchange was we upgrade to AD and we
> switched everything internal to a .local name, so mail
> servers are XXX.aviinc.local

Hi Richard!

In your Mac's TCP/IP Control Panel is a field for Additional Search
Domains. Add your "aviinc.local" domain suffix there and see if you have
any luck.

For Mac OS 9 and earlier machines the .local will not affect anything
but it will affect the networking of Mac OS X machines because they use
.local to refer to a Rendezvous network.

Since your company is early in its execution of its 2003 environment,
you may want to consider changing the ".local" to something else before
it becomes too ingrained in your organization.

For a workaround to this for your Macs see this
<http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107800>. I've heard this
isn't always reliable, however, and that renaming the company network to
something other than .local is better.

Hope this helps! bill 

-- 
William M. Smith
(Microsoft Interop MVP)

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