Outlook 2000 and Exchange 2007

[Phil McNeill]

As per the article linked below, I understand that Outlook 2000 is not
supported in an Exchange 2007 environment.

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/exchange/2007/evaluate/clients.mspx

Anyone out there running Outlook 2000 with Exchange 2007 as the back end?
How's it working? Any issues with mail or public folders?

Thanks for any info!

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

Basic stuff should work fine - they did not test it and will not "support"
that combination should you have issues. I would expect problems in a mixed
client environment and with rules.

 

[John Oliver, Jr. [MVP]]

No problems so far at one of my customers running Outlook 2000. If you do
have issues this might be the reason,

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/555851

 

[Ed Crowley [MVP]]

From what I hear it should work. As I understand it, because Outlook 2000
itself is going off support, Microsoft chose not t regression-test it. Any
version of Outlook should still work.

 

[Phil McNeill]

By "a mixed client environment and with rules" do you mean specifically that
a user moving back and forth between client versions will have issues with
their rules (expected), or would you expect that in a strictly Outlook 2000
client environment there would be some rule issues because of Exchange 2007
on the back end?

Thanks!

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

I'm addressing client side problems.

You should avoid using different versions of Outlook against the same
mailbox - it works, but things can get messed up. Outlook 2003 and 2007 adds
a lot of new properties to messages and stores all kinds of stuff in hidden
messages in the mailbox -outlook 2000 will usually ignore them but may
corrupt or delete the properties or hidden messages on occasion. Rules can
be problematic because of changes in the rules engine - since 2003 they are
Unicode formatted and if you try to edit them in 2000 or create new rules in
2000 you'll end up with ghost rules (been there, done that). You may also
have problems if you have multiple versions of outlook in use within the
company and the older versions get meeting requests from the newer versions.
All the basic stuff will work though...

 

[Phil McNeill]

Thanks for the input Diane, John and Ed. Very helpful and appreciated.

Phil