Thanks for the reply Karen: Been there done that... We have a PDC locally connected to the same switch that is a GC. I even demoted it from a GC and followed the instructions at Q304403 on the support site to a T and re-promoted and rebooted the PDC. I did this because I felt the server may have been restarted before the GC had time to fully populate the first time around. It was rebooted immediately the first time of course to activate the NSPI. It was only later I found out you're supposed to wait a few moments for the GC to populate.. Is there any way to test to confirm the NSPI is fully functional? More background: The first DC/GC on the network is on the other side of a VPN (through Cisco PIX's with T1's) but there is a local DC/GC server. Both the local GC and the exchange server have been rebooted many times since these changes were made. Over the past few days I have had several instances where the original errors described have occurred and the only way to get the server back on line is to restart. Stopping and restarting the services doesn't help. Thanks again. Clint Nichols Director of Information Technology Athens Area School District [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: Karen McLaughlin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, August 24, 2001 1:02 PM To: Clint CHN. Nichols Subject: Re: DOES NO ONE KNOW???? RE: Exchange 2000 install in new Win 2000domain problems... > The obvious problems it has, is some user can connect with Outlook other > can't. They receive a "name cannot be resolved" error when trying. > POP3 and web access works for ever account. Not so obvious client > observations are that the global address list doesn't always show up at > the client. I've seen this before and for us, the culprit was the Global Catalog. Exchange 2000 relies heavily on the GC, so I would look very carefully at your GC placement especially if clients are connecting over slow or unreliable WAN links. Another interesting point to consider is that a server that gets flagged as a GC must be rebooted before Exchange 2000 will see it as a GC. Stupid question, but have you rebooted your GC's since flagging them as such? Good luck. - Karen _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
