Discussion Locked

Outlook 2000 support for Exchange 5.5

0 helpful
7 replies
Closed to new repliesThis discussion is closed. It stays readable, but it takes no new replies.

Hi,
Currently we have Office 2K, with Outlook 2000 configured to run our POP Server. Now we recently installed one Exchnage 5.5 Server.
What is the option to have make Outlook 2000 work as Exchange client + support the original POP email server without reinstalling/ uninstalling Office 2K.
At present the guy login to domain & use it as POP Server.
Is there any Office or Exchnage patch that I can run & get Exchange Server options in Outlook 2000 (right click Outlook2K Properties - add Exchange server) ? If yes, tell me the URLs ASAP.

Akash

7 replies

by m.r.

If I understand your question you want both at once and MS states this is not possible. You can set different profiles for each but would have to restart Outlook each time. Outlook 2002 does support both. You might have the pop3 account forward to the Exchange account. Could also run Outlook Express as the pop3 client.

by catmanth

Hi,
very easy, open outlook, select from the menu tools and then options. Inside there select the Tab Mail Services. At the bottom of the dialog you find a button "Reconfigure Mail Support"
Select them, at the next page select Corporate or Workgroup.
No you can add the exchange server to your profile and the POP3 server access is working like before. No differents without a crazy problem now ....
You don't know if Outlook is downloading emails or not. Microsoft say in his knowledgebase a corporate user don't need this feature .... :((
So when you get big emails over a slow connection, you don't know this. When you kill now Outlook because it looks that outlook is crashed because it is not handle longer unser interrupts, then in the next time the download starts again - with the full length !!! and all emails downloaded before stopping outlook will downloaded again. Because OL is only deleting all emails on the server in the same time. OL don't delete a email after downloading ! So be carefull is this situation.
The rest should be easy, if not - ask again :))
Good luck

This discussion is closed to new replies.