Outlook 2007 & Exchange v5.5

[Paul Digby]

I know I should change to Exchange 2003, but this is a test environment.

Outlook 2007 managed to download all email content, but now remains
Disconnected. When I start Outlook 2007, the message appears

The resource that you are trying to use is located on an unsupported version
of MS Exchange Server.

Is there something I can stop from tunning at start-up to allow it to work?

 

[Patrick Schmid]

Hi Paul,

You are out of luck. From the known issues page:
"Microsoft continuously strives to provide a consistent and predictable
end-of-life-cycle experience for all of its products. In accordance with
standard Microsoft life-cycle policies Exchange 5.5 ended extended
life-cycle support on January 10th, 2006. As a result, Outlook 2007 will
not support Exchange 5.5. Because neither the Outlook or Exchange team
is supporting this combination we will not discover and/or fix issues
that crop up as the result of innovations in both products . Rather than
subjecting customers to potential serious issues like data loss or
frequent server downtime we choose to prevent Outlook from connecting to
these older and now unsupported servers. Our research has shown that
there is a relatively small set of customers who want to upgrade their
desktops to the latest and greatest versions of Office and run server
technology as old as Exchange 5.5. There are clearly exceptions but they
don't seem to be the norm."

Patrick Schmid

 

[Ben M. Schorr - MVP]

Aloha Paul,

Outlook 2007 Beta 2 doesn't support Exchange 5.5. Only thing you can do
is remove Exchange from the profile if you're going to keep using Outlook
2007 - at least until you upgrade to Exchange 2000 or later.

-Ben-
Ben M. Schorr - MVP
http://www.rolandschorr.com
Microsoft OneNote FAQ: http://www.factplace.com/onenotefaq.htm

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

Or use Imap to get the mail-but you lose calendar access.

 

[Paul Digby]

I have set-up an Imap connection and does not error. However, I only can see
Inbox and not folders underneath inbox.

Is this another functionality that I lose?

 

[Patrick Schmid]

Hi Paul,

Do you see your folders if you right-click on the root of your IMAP
folders in the folder list (navigation pane), select IMAP Folders and
hit Query? If you do, subscribe to them there.

Patrick Schmid

 

[Paul Digby]

Unable to check until Monday.

Assuming this works, this will not remove email messages from my Exchange
Server? I have seen articles relating to that

 

[Patrick Schmid]

Nope. IMAP is a protocol that keeps all messages on the server (it only
downloads local copies). However, if you move a message to a local PST
file or delete it via IMAP, that is obviously reflected in Exchange.

Patrick Schmid

 

[Paul Digby]

That indeed worked.

When I replied to a message, I received the following message below - or
should I post a new message?

The recipient name is not recognized
The MTS-ID of the original message is: c=us;a= ;p=digby
computers;l=PDCDIGBY0606121226MPA0BDJ5
MSEXCH:IMSIGBY ComputersIGBYDC1DCDIGBY 0 (000C05A6)
Unknown Recipient