HELP!!!! Can't figure problem out

[KTyson9426]

hello... and thank you in advance to anyone that can assist me with my
problem...

I'm running Outlook 2000 on XP connecting to an internal Exchange 2000
server... When some of the workstations start up Outlook they get the
following error



"Your Microsoft Exchange Server is unavaliable

You can retry connecting to the server using the network,
or work off-line and connect using dial-up networking.

The network did not respond in a timely fashion to
determine the existance of an Exchange Server, you
may retry and continue waiting for a responds or work off-line"



If you select "retry", the Outlook client will always connect to the server
immediately afterwards

I've loaded every patch out there for XP, Outlook & Exchange... I've adjusted
the "Connection Timeout" to 60 seconds... My network utilization is under 3
%... So at this point I'm sort of at the end of my rope as what to do...

This has been an on going problem and it's become way beyond simply being a
thorn in my side... I've posted this on here several times... But never gotten
a reply... If anyone could point me in the right direction I would be extremely
greatful

 

[amikea]

Does this only happen when you 1st open Outlook or
immediately after a boot up on the PC?

 

[KTyson9426]

Does this only happen when you 1st open Outlook or

immediately after a boot up on the PC?

only when outlook is first started. I have some machines that don't do it and
some that do... I've tried to go threw the network connections and duplicate
the configurations so all machines are identical... but that didn't help at all