RE: [ActiveDir] Force Outlook to use closest GC to Outlook client

[Tony Murray]

Title: Force Outlook to use closest GC to Outlook client

Both settings should work (but I guess that doesn’t help J).   Is the GC you are specifying in the registry keys definitely a working GC?   You can quickly check this by connecting to RootDSE on the DC using LDP.EXE.  It should show:   isGlobalCatalogReady: TRUE   Also, if your DC is pre-Windows 2000 SP3 and was made a GC but has not been rebooted since promotion, NSPI (the bit that Outlook and Exchange talk to on the GC) is not automatically enabled.  A reboot is required.   You might be able to see more of what happens at the time of connection by using Ctrl+right click on the Outlook icon in the task bar notification area and selecting “Connection status”.  Sometimes this can give you a few clues.   Failing that, you could try a netmon trace to see what (if any) traffic there is to the GC.   Tony   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Victor W Sent: Thursday, 7 July 2005 9:20 a.m. To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: [ActiveDir] Force Outlook to use closest GC to Outlook client   Hope you can help me with this one. This is the case: I am in an environment with one root domain and 4 child domains in it, based on country (4 countries). All users have an account in one of the child domains (the rootdomain is in fact empty and acting as placeholder). Now when somebody from lets say childdomain A, is travelling to another country, for instance childdomain B and he connects with Outlook to his mailbox in childdomain A, he gets referred to the gc that is closest to his Exchange server. What I want is to get Outlook to connect to the closest gc to the Outlook client itself. I know there is a KB article for this and I followed that: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q319206 According to MS the following key could be implemented to force Outlook to connect to the closest gc to itself instead of to the gc closest to the Exchange server being used. HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Exchange\Exchange Provider Value name: Closest GC Data type: REG_DWORD Radix: Hexadecimal Value data: 0x00000001 Anyway, that doesnt work. When I check I find out that Outlook still uses the gc closest to the Exchange server. I even tried specifying a specific gc for Outlook to use. The registry key for that is also to be found in that same KB article: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Exchange\Exchange Provider Value name: DS Server Data type: REG_SZ (string) Value data: FQDN of the global catalog server Still the same problem. Outlook keeps using the gc closest to the Exchange server. Do you have any suggestions about solving this? Thanks a million in advance. Victor   This e-mail message has been scanned for Viruses and Content and cleared by NetIQ MailMarshal at Gen-i Limited This communication, including any attachments, is confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, you should not read it - please contact me immediately, destroy it, and do not copy or  use any part of this communication or disclose anything about it. Thank You. Please note that this communication does not designate an information system for the purposes of the NZ Electronic Transactions Act 2002.. This e-mail message has been scanned and cleared by NetIQ MailMarshal at Gen-i Limited