My network consists of a Windows 2000 Advanced Server as the Domain Controller, running Exchange 5.5 SP4; and an old NT 4.0 Server which remains as a BDC from before I upgrade the DC to Windows 2000 Advanced Server.
Now I have installed a new machine with Windows 2003 Enterprise edition, joined it to the domain as a member server, and promoted it to also be a DC; and then I installed Exchange Server 2003 Enterprise edition on it.
I did NOT try to join the new Exchange Server 2003 to the existing Exchange 5.5 site. In the past, playing with Exchange Server 2000, I had loaded Active Directory Connector but never quite gotten it to work.
Between my last failed attempt with Exchange 2000 and now, I uninstalled Exchange 2000 from any machine on the network, uninstalled Active Directory Connector, and used ADSIEdit to completely delete the Exchange container from AD. Then I installed Exchange 2003 as above.
Almost everything works fine:
* Mail sends and receives
* Outlook Web Access works (beautiful!)
* IMAP works (PINE on a UNIX box)
* Within OWA, composing a new email and clicking on the To: link and searching through the Global Address List works fine.
What does NOT work is that no heavy Outlook 2003 client is able to set up a profile to point at a user with a mailbox on the Exchange 2003 server. The same mailbox I'm trying to get Outlook 2003 to be able to access WILL work in OWA and via IMAP, just not from Outlook 2003.
The error I get when I right-click on the Outlook 2003 desktop icon and select properties, or go to the user's Mail applet in Control Panel, and type in the Exchange 2003 server name and the user's mailbox alias is:
"The name could not be resolved. The name could not be matched to a name in the address list."
I found this MS KB article:
.. and followed all of its steps. Everything it said to look for, to check permission on, &etc was fine. The only thing that might be an issue is #7 from the article:
7. Verify that Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5 is not installed on the global catalog server.
In fact, the Windows 2000 Advanced server which is the DC, started its life as an NT 4.0 Server, and does have Exchange Server 5.5 SP4 running on it.
Probably making things worse, I then tried to migrate the GC from that Windows 2000 Advanced Server to the new Windows 2003 Server in hopes that it was the simple presence of Exchange 5.5 on the GC that mattered, and not that having had the Exchange 5.5 server on the GC polluted AD (in which case a migration of the GC wouldn't make a difference).
Now when I try to set up an Outlook 2003 profile to point to the new Exchange 2003 server, the error has become:
"The action could not be completed. The bookmark is not valid".
So, what was actually wrong, and what did I make worse by evidently not doing the GC migration properly, and most important of all ... HEEELLLLLLLLP!! How do I fix it?
Thanks!
-Jay
Now I have installed a new machine with Windows 2003 Enterprise edition, joined it to the domain as a member server, and promoted it to also be a DC; and then I installed Exchange Server 2003 Enterprise edition on it.
I did NOT try to join the new Exchange Server 2003 to the existing Exchange 5.5 site. In the past, playing with Exchange Server 2000, I had loaded Active Directory Connector but never quite gotten it to work.
Between my last failed attempt with Exchange 2000 and now, I uninstalled Exchange 2000 from any machine on the network, uninstalled Active Directory Connector, and used ADSIEdit to completely delete the Exchange container from AD. Then I installed Exchange 2003 as above.
Almost everything works fine:
* Mail sends and receives
* Outlook Web Access works (beautiful!)
* IMAP works (PINE on a UNIX box)
* Within OWA, composing a new email and clicking on the To: link and searching through the Global Address List works fine.
What does NOT work is that no heavy Outlook 2003 client is able to set up a profile to point at a user with a mailbox on the Exchange 2003 server. The same mailbox I'm trying to get Outlook 2003 to be able to access WILL work in OWA and via IMAP, just not from Outlook 2003.
The error I get when I right-click on the Outlook 2003 desktop icon and select properties, or go to the user's Mail applet in Control Panel, and type in the Exchange 2003 server name and the user's mailbox alias is:
"The name could not be resolved. The name could not be matched to a name in the address list."
I found this MS KB article:
.. and followed all of its steps. Everything it said to look for, to check permission on, &etc was fine. The only thing that might be an issue is #7 from the article:
7. Verify that Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5 is not installed on the global catalog server.
In fact, the Windows 2000 Advanced server which is the DC, started its life as an NT 4.0 Server, and does have Exchange Server 5.5 SP4 running on it.
Probably making things worse, I then tried to migrate the GC from that Windows 2000 Advanced Server to the new Windows 2003 Server in hopes that it was the simple presence of Exchange 5.5 on the GC that mattered, and not that having had the Exchange 5.5 server on the GC polluted AD (in which case a migration of the GC wouldn't make a difference).
Now when I try to set up an Outlook 2003 profile to point to the new Exchange 2003 server, the error has become:
"The action could not be completed. The bookmark is not valid".
So, what was actually wrong, and what did I make worse by evidently not doing the GC migration properly, and most important of all ... HEEELLLLLLLLP!! How do I fix it?
Thanks!
-Jay
