How to change GAL from outlook

[Kimmo Koivisto]

Hello

I posted this to the other group but this might be more
suitable:


Background:
I'm now connected to our domain example.local. Domain
controller is W2K and has Exchange 2000 installed. I have
Outlook 2002 on my XP pro. Address book and mails are
working fine.

Problem:
I need change my Outlook to connect to other Exchange
(let's call it E2) outside of our domain. I have managed
to do that but Outlook shows global address book from my
domain instead of E2. I don't need to use old exchange
anymore but there are users that are still connected to
the old one so I cannot remove it.

When I log on as local user (not to the domain) and set up
outlook, it uses GAL properly from the new E2.

Q: How to change outlook to use GAL from new E2 when I am
logged on to the domain which still has old exchange
installed?

Regards
Kimmo Koivisto

 

[neo [mvp outlook]]

Sounds like you are running into a collision surrounding the offline address
book or you just modified/copied the existing profile and modified the
server/mailbox name. Each are pretty easy to rule out.

1) Offline Address Book collision - Delete the *.oab files that comprise the
offline address book.


2) Create a new mail profile to E2 via the mail applet in the control panel.
Do not copy the existing profile as there will be a pointer in it that tells
Outlook which Global Catalog server to connect to. The new profile will
force Outlook to check-in with the E2 server and get a new reference to a
Global Catalog server. Hopefully this new reference is to a DC/GC that is
home domain for the E2 server.

Could you post back which because if it is the second, I'm going to have
someone at MS look at this to see if has been fixed by patch and/or doesn't
happen in later versions.

/neo

 

[Kimmo Koivisto]

-----Original Message-----
Sounds like you are running into a collision surrounding the offline address
book or you just modified/copied the existing profile and modified the
server/mailbox name. Each are pretty easy to rule out.

1) Offline Address Book collision - Delete the *.oab files that comprise the
offline address book.


2) Create a new mail profile to E2 via the mail applet in the control panel.
Do not copy the existing profile as there will be a pointer in it that tells
Outlook which Global Catalog server to connect to. The new profile will
force Outlook to check-in with the E2 server and get a new reference to a
Global Catalog server. Hopefully this new reference is to a DC/GC that is
home domain for the E2 server.

Could you post back which because if it is the second, I'm going to have
someone at MS look at this to see if has been fixed by patch and/or doesn't
happen in later versions.

/neo

Thank you *very* much.
What I did before was that I removed exchange from
profile and added new one. When I did what you suggested
in 2) everything seems to be OK.

Regards
Kimmo Koivisto