Profile Setup

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When I enter the server name and mailbox name when setting up an Outlook 2003
profile, how does it lookup the name? It seems I can put any name in the
server area as long as I have a valid mailbox name. I used a made up server
name and it still resolved the mailbox.

Thanks,
 
Outlook 2003 uses the Global Catalog servers in an AD environment.
(Exchange 200x refers Outlook 2000/2003 to the GCs.)

Outside of that, I didn't think what you just did was possible since a new
profile (o/s and outlook) shouldn't have a reference to a GC until checking
in with Exchange. Guess Outlook 2003 is smarter than I thought and is
leveraging AD to find the GCs. Wonder if I can break it. :)
 
Neo -

Thanks for the reply. I have setup Outlook before on this particular
workstation. So it probably has knowledge of our GC's.

I appreciate it!
 
ah man, you just broke my heart. There are a few MVPs that believe Outlook
should be smart where it gets all profile information from AD. This way a
user never sees a dialog if Outlook has to create one on the fly.
 
It should get all profile data from AD. My GC's are a little bit more static
than my exchange servers.
 
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