Yes, and Yes. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Candee Vaglica Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2004 2:52 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Re: Outlook "Waiting for Exchange..." dialogs
Are you using internal DNS? Do you have a PTR record set up? On Tue, 14 Sep 2004 14:36:33 -0500, Reasoner, Bob (PHES) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > All of the reported messages are definitely reporting the short name > of our Exchange server. There are two local GCs on the same subnet > with the Exchange server that appear to be functioning well. > > The really weird thing is that I'm on the same subnet with the server > and rarely see the dialogs. I have 4 subnets in this building (all > vlans on a Cisco 4006 catalyst) all are part of the same AD site. The > servers are on one subnet (with the IS Network Admins on the same > vlan) and the users are on the other three. I can login to my Citrix > server (also on the same > subnet) and see the dialogs, but my local client never reports them (I > have verified that they aren't turned off on this client). > > I can only assume that I have been lucky and didn't create an RPC > request in the affected time frame, but have no way to verify that. > > Bob > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > David, Andy > Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2004 1:51 PM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: Outlook "Waiting for Exchange..." dialogs > > Another item of note: > If the server name in the dialog box is in FQDN format, then Outlook > is waiting on the directory service. If the short name of the server > is listed, its waiting on a mailbox or public folder server. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Michael B. Smith > Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2004 2:49 PM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: Outlook "Waiting for Exchange..." dialogs > > An excellent article about the RPC Canceller dialog: > > http://blogs.msdn.com/jasonjoh/archive/2004/08/09/211279.aspx > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > John Matteson > Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2004 2:38 PM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: Outlook "Waiting for Exchange..." dialogs > > That flag has been the cause of more headaches that carter has little pills. > > The flag will set if the response to a client query takes more than > about half a second. The timing is changeable via a registry entry, > and can be disabled as well. Check the Microsoft KB for the article > that describes the change in detail. > > Please let your users know that the flag is telling them that Exchange > is processing their request and will take a second or three to return > the results. They should be happy that the flag is there, as that > tells them they really are talking to the server. > > You will also get the flag if you do a search against your mailbox or > against a public folder, even if you have Full Text Indices built on > the message databases. > > John Matteson > Geac Global IT group > (404) 239 - 2981 > Atlanta, Georgia, USA. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Reasoner, Bob (PHES) > Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2004 2:09 PM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: Outlook "Waiting for Exchange..." dialogs > > For the last 3 weeks or so all of my clients (ranging through Outlook > 2000, XP, and 2003) have started noticing frequent dialog boxes > indicating that their client is waiting for the exchange server, > synchronizing with the exchange server, or just in general unable to > communicate with the exchange server. > > I can't find any problems with the network itself. > > The Exchange server is a Dell 2650 Dual processor 2.0 GHz Xeon, Ample > space available on boot, log, and store drives, 1Gb RAM. The server > is in a Mixed Mode 5.5 admin group and we use Trend AV for Exchange. > This server services approximately 500 mailboxes and has 1 Mail store > (approx > 17 GB, Exchange 2K > SP4 Enterprise) 1 public store les than 5 GB. The OS is Win2K SP4 with > all hotfixes applied to OS and Exchange. There is a single 5.5 server > in the Admin group as well but it doesn't host any mailboxes. > > This site has connectors to our parent organization, but all the > mailboxes are servicing accounts within our local AD subdomain of the Parent forest. > We don't have any errors showing up in event viewer, and the only > warnings are related to incoming replication of public folder data > from our parent's Exchange 5.5 server. > > Anyone have any tried and true techniques for troubleshooting this > type of problem? I have tried changing the > ExchangeProvider/RPC_Binding_Order > registry Key on some of the clients to "ncalrpc,ncacn_ip_tcp" or > reversing those entries to no avail. > > ________________________________ > > Bob Reasoner > Harris County Public Health & Environmental Services > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Web Interface: > http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode > =& > lang=english > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > %%email.unsub%% > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: > Jupitermedia Corp. > Attn: Discussion List Management > 475 Park Avenue South > New York, NY 10016 > > Please include the email address which you have been contacted with. > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Web Interface: > http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode > =& > lang=english > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > %%email.unsub%% > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: > Jupitermedia Corp. > Attn: Discussion List Management > 475 Park Avenue South > New York, NY 10016 > > Please include the email address which you have been contacted with. > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Web Interface: > http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode > =&lang > =english > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > %%email.unsub%% > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: > Jupitermedia Corp. > Attn: Discussion List Management > 475 Park Avenue South > New York, NY 10016 > > Please include the email address which you have been contacted with. > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Web Interface: > http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode > =&lang > =english > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > %%email.unsub%% > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: > Jupitermedia Corp. > Attn: Discussion List Management > 475 Park Avenue South > New York, NY 10016 > > Please include the email address which you have been contacted with. > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Web Interface: > http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode > =&lang=english To unsubscribe send a blank email to %%email.unsub%% > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: > Jupitermedia Corp. > Attn: Discussion List Management > 475 Park Avenue South > New York, NY 10016 > > Please include the email address which you have been contacted with. > > _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang =english To unsubscribe send a blank email to %%email.unsub%% Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. 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