Outlook default exchange server

[b]

The Question: How do you configure Outlook 2003 to find the
correct/closest Exchange server.

Cause:In the past I used an unattended install of Office and pointed
the installation
to the correct Exchange Server. Recently I did an hardware upgrade and
moved
my mailboxes from one Exchange server to another. Any outlook client
that had
the unattended install would continue to look for the wrong server.
This turned into
a real pain in the ass.

I seem to remember something about Outlook having the ability to find
the proper
Exchange server on its own. However I can't seem to find the
documentation.

Does anyone have any thoughts or experience with the issue.

Thanks.

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

In

The Question: How do you configure Outlook 2003 to find the
correct/closest Exchange server.

Cause:In the past I used an unattended install of Office and pointed
the installation
to the correct Exchange Server. Recently I did an hardware upgrade and
moved
my mailboxes from one Exchange server to another. Any outlook client
that had
the unattended install would continue to look for the wrong server.
This turned into
a real pain in the ass.

I seem to remember something about Outlook having the ability to find
the proper
Exchange server on its own. However I can't seem to find the
documentation.

Does anyone have any thoughts or experience with the issue.

Thanks.

If the server on which the mailbox *used* to be, is still up and running,
Outlook should find the *new* mailbox server the first time it connects. If
the old server is no longer available, or if you did something funky in your
custom installation config, this won't work. You'll need to either use a
profile generation utility or manually change the profiles.

 

[b]

Yes. And that is exactly what has happened. What I would like to do is
configure unattened install
in the future so that Outlook is more flexible to changes in the
environment. Less work for
my users and less work for me right!? Lanwench, I guess what I'm asking
is what is the proper way to configure the Default user profile so that
any new user to the machine will not have to create a new mail profile.

In the past I pointed to a specific Exchange server but this is
apparently too easily broken.
I have also tried to configure Outlook with no default exchange server
but this obviously

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

In

Yes. And that is exactly what has happened. What I would like to do is
configure unattened install
in the future so that Outlook is more flexible to changes in the
environment. Less work for
my users and less work for me right!? Lanwench, I guess what I'm
asking is what is the proper way to configure the Default user
profile so that any new user to the machine will not have to create a
new mail profile.

In the past I pointed to a specific Exchange server but this is
apparently too easily broken.
I have also tried to configure Outlook with no default exchange server
but this obviously

Sorry, I'm not sure, as I've never done exactly what you're doing - you
might post in m.p.exchange.clients. I use roaming profiles (with folder
redirection) so the user gets his/her own Windows (and hence, Outlook)
profile at login, no matter where they sit.

 

[b]

Lanwench

Thanks for the info anyways. I will look into using roaming profiles as
well.