Re: SBS2003 Outlook HTTP/RPC not working

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"SuperGumby [SBS MVP]" wrote:


There is a possibility that the problem exists due to DNS, what is the AD
DNS name please? (munge it if you like but please keep it 'substantially
correct').



The internal/external DNS has not changed across the 'works'->'doesn't work'
event. None the less, in terms of what they are is essentially

internal: hostname.foobar.local
external: www.foobar.org

obviously i was not lucky enough to register foobar.org :)

And please don't think I don't appreciate your responses. I truly do. I
was somewhat surprised by the tenor of your first one given that (as Susan
points out) this is a P2P community and not an advertising/referal mechanism.

I also recognize that I can perform a 'server upgrade/migration' (probably
using the swing kit) and start with a 'fresh' server configuration and
retaining my data, etc.

Its just that even that is a monumental undertaking and it just frustrates
me to think that entropy can creep to cause such a failure and the tools do
not exist to linearly validate each hop from client->proxy->rpc-server and
understand what is failing.

I am stymied by the result that the RPC diagnostic tools (RpcPing) can tell
me it recieves and error indicating the RPC server is not available and yet I
cannot determine from the RPC Proxy why it cannot communicate with the RPC
Server endpoint on the very same box. If there is some way to expose
diagnostic information from the RPC Proxy, perhaps that would explain the
'last hop' of this problem.

Regards,
-dave

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