Dear all, i have been away from the list for absolutely ages but i need to go over an issue of GC discovery with Outlook XP that need some help on.
this may be regarded as OT to this list, but have posted on an MS Outlook newsgroup site with nothing back so i hope this post to be in order. i recall what ended up as a trilogy many months ago on a similar topic but need to get fairly specific information on the mechanisms used by Outlook XP to locate a GC server. there was much discussion on the configuration of Outlook to use local GC discovery (by way of the CLOSESTGC reg value) but on the basis of this configuration can anyone elaborate on the mechanism that Outlook configured as such uses to locate a GC. as i understand the MS documentation, this registry value disables the 'referral' that the client gets (presumably from DSACCESS / DSPROXY). as such it must then have its own mechanism - THIS IS WHAT WE ARE INTERESTED IN - we have attempted loading the SRV RR's (ldapsrvpriority) so the discovery process is loaded towards a particular GC, but this does not seem to prevail as always assistances gladly received. GT List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
