Re: SBS2003 Outlook HTTP/RPC not working

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HECK, I couldda told you that :-)

Unfortunately, none of us asked for the 'IPConfig /all' from the server.
This would have revealed the existence of the IPv6 stack.
(must remember next time that one reason such (RPC) cannot be found is the
existence of the v6 stack)

There's probably a way (binding order?) to allow the v6 stack on SBS but
when I was fooling with it several months ago I saw a number of IP related
failures and didn't really have call for v6. I expect your logs are now much
cleaner than previously and that RPC was not the only thing effected.

"Dave Cattley" <DaveCattley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:4C544A1E-B792-4E01-85D6-161EB8D8CD02@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I wish to thank all of you for taking the time to try and help me. Your
thoughtful feedback gave me lots of pointer to chase. In the process of
addressing the KB recommendations for DNS I performed some additional
diagnostics and found my issues.

[Drum-roll....]

I disabled IPv6. It would appear that having IPv6 enabled on the SBS
server is a 'bad thing'. Now, I have not found out why but what I had
suspected all along, that the Proxy could not talk to the RPC services on
the
same machine, turns out to be true based on the diagnostic tools (RPCDIAG)
etc. What appears to be the issue was that given the choice, some
components
will try to talk IPv6 and some do not. I am guess Exchange 2003 is in the
'does not' category or some such. Who cares. My server is fixed.

Lesson for the wary - Do not turn on IPv6 on your SBS2003 server. If any
of
you know why, please educate me.

Cheers,
-dave


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