Forcing Outlook 2001 to connect to a specific GC

[Carrie McCoy]

We recently upgraded to Exchange 2003 and combined multiple "sites"
(which were carried over from Exchange 5.5) onto one set of e-mail
servers. However, we still have multiple AD domains, so accounts
often live in a domain that is different from that of the e-mail
servers. This has presented an issue with DL management. Most of our
users (who edit DLs) and DLs are in the same domain (domain X), but
the Exchange servers are in another domain (domain Y) so the users are
often connected to a GC from domain Y. Since the GC in domain Y
doesn't contain a writable copy of the DL, users get an error (Changes
to the distribution list membership could not be saved. You do not
have sufficient permissions to perform this operation on this object.)
For Windows users, we were able to create an installer for a registry
key which tells Outlook to look for a specific GC, but we don't know
how to address this issue in Outlook 2001. Is there any way to make
Outlook 2001 look for a specific GC and if that GC is not available to
fail back to the default way of connecting to a GC?

 

[M. Amir Haque [MSFT]]

no, this is not possible for outlook 2001 for Mac, you cannot point it to go
talk to a specific gc server, it will get the referral from ds access tab of
its exchange server, where it is going to connect to the mailbox.

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M. Amir Haque
Microsoft Enterprise Messaging

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