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by mkfme

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I have Exchange Server 5.5 SP3 installed on NT Server 4 SP6a. I had a problem with the MTA service hanging up which I resolved after a struggle. Now all my XP and Win2K Outlook 2000 clients are connecting to the Xchg server fine, but my Outlook 2Kclients on NT 4 SP6a boxes either won't connect at all, or do so much more slowly than they did before. I've tried the obvious (rebooting the client), the less obvious (uninstall/reinstall Exchange Server as a Service in the Outlook client) and thedesparate (running SP6a again), all to no avail. Any thoughts/suggestions are greatly appreciated.

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by acattr

It looks like your having a name resolution problem.

1. Install DNS (preferably on a 2000 machine)
2. Create any zone (company.local for example)
3. Create a host record for your exchange server and all your other servers if you want.
4. Set all your machines to use this new DNS server as thier primary(first) DNS server(preferably over DHCP, scope option 005).
5. Set the Parent Domain to be the company.local domain on all machines(preferably over DHCP, scope option 015)

If you dothis outlook will open up alot faster, without hesitation. If you want, You can setup the dns server and set the setting manually on one NT workstation to try it out.

by mkfme

Actually, I don't know if the answer would have helped or not. The problem remains unsolved after a week of the best efforts of an MCSE at Microsoft and I've decided to scrap Exchange altogether and switch everyone to Internet mail. Exchange was overkill for us anyway. Thanks for the suggestion though.

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