Outook 2001 - Exchange Server Unavailable Resolution

[cwwilly]

Here was my problem:

I installed Outlook 2001 and was able to successfully create and test
a profile against our Exchange 5.5 server. When I got to the login
screen I would type in the username, password, and domain name,
however, I would receive an error message: "The Exchange Server is
Unavailable."

Here way my solution:

Instead of using TCP/IP I used Appletalk. Within OSX I had to enable
Appletalk. Ask your systems administrator to configure the Services
for Macintosh on your primary domain controller. Enable Appletalk and
you should be good to go.

I still don't understand why the TCP/IP option didn't work for me. Oh
well it works !

-cwwilly

 

[William M. Smith]

Here was my problem:

I installed Outlook 2001 and was able to successfully create and test
a profile against our Exchange 5.5 server. When I got to the login
screen I would type in the username, password, and domain name,
however, I would receive an error message: "The Exchange Server is
Unavailable."

Here way my solution:

Instead of using TCP/IP I used Appletalk. Within OSX I had to enable
Appletalk. Ask your systems administrator to configure the Services
for Macintosh on your primary domain controller. Enable Appletalk and
you should be good to go.

I still don't understand why the TCP/IP option didn't work for me. Oh
well it works !

Outlook 2001 requires either DNS name resolution or a Hosts file. It will
not work with an IP address for the server.

Does this sound like what you're seeing?

If at all possible, you should connect via IP because Appletalk will be much
slower and is an extra administrative service to have to support.

Hope this helps! bill