Profile Setup

Thread view:

Enable EMail Alerts

Start New Thread

Thread rating:

Andrew - 30 Dec 2004 18:53 GMT

When I enter the server name and mailbox name when setting up an Outlook 2003
profile, how does it lookup the name? It seems I can put any name in the
server area as long as I have a valid mailbox name. I used a made up server
name and it still resolved the mailbox.

Thanks,

Reply to this Message

neo [mvp outlook] - 30 Dec 2004 19:17 GMT

Outlook 2003 uses the Global Catalog servers in an AD environment.
(Exchange 200x refers Outlook 2000/2003 to the GCs.)

Outside of that, I didn't think what you just did was possible since a new
profile (o/s and outlook) shouldn't have a reference to a GC until checking
in with Exchange. Guess Outlook 2003 is smarter than I thought and is
leveraging AD to find the GCs. Wonder if I can break it. :)

> When I enter the server name and mailbox name when setting up an Outlook
> 2003
[quoted text clipped - 4 lines]
>
> Thanks,

Reply to this Message

Andrew - 30 Dec 2004 19:27 GMT

Neo -

Thanks for the reply. I have setup Outlook before on this particular
workstation. So it probably has knowledge of our GC's.

I appreciate it!

> Outlook 2003 uses the Global Catalog servers in an AD environment.
> (Exchange 200x refers Outlook 2000/2003 to the GCs.)
[quoted text clipped - 12 lines]
> >
> > Thanks,

Reply to this Message

neo [mvp outlook] - 30 Dec 2004 19:42 GMT

ah man, you just broke my heart. There are a few MVPs that believe Outlook
should be smart where it gets all profile information from AD. This way a
user never sees a dialog if Outlook has to create one on the fly.

> Neo -
>
[quoted text clipped - 23 lines]
>> >
>> > Thanks,

Reply to this Message

Andrew - 30 Dec 2004 20:47 GMT

It should get all profile data from AD. My GC's are a little bit more static
than my exchange servers.

> ah man, you just broke my heart. There are a few MVPs that believe Outlook
> should be smart where it gets all profile information from AD. This way a
[quoted text clipped - 27 lines]
> >> >
> >> > Thanks,

Reply to this Message