Are both GCs in the same site? Outlook does keep the GC in the registry, but it gets it from Exchange in a process known as "referral". Look in your Exchange server's Properties pages, under Directory Access (I think it is; it's known as DSAccess) and you can see which GCs your Exchange server uses. If there's only one in the site and it goes down, it could take maybe 15 minutes (from my experience) for the Exchange server to decide to use a GC outside the site. That may be enough ammunition for you to purchase a second GC for the site.
Ed Crowley MCSE+Internet MVP Freelance E-Mail Philosopher Protecting the world from PSTs and Bricked Backups!T -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Carmila Fresco Sent: Friday, July 25, 2003 8:59 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Outlook dependency to GC Is there a dependecy between Outlook 2002 and the global catalog server? I took down one of the GC's for maintenance but we still have 1 other GC that is up and running in the site. What I was thinking was, everything would be okay since I don't have both GC's down. All of a sudden, users are unable to open Outlook. Brought the GC back up and it's back to business as usual. I'm running Exchange 2000 SP 3, Windows 2000 SP3. Clients are Outlook 2002 SP2. Thanks, Carmila This email message may contain information that is confidential and proprietary to Babcock & Brown or a third party. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender and destroy the original and any copies of the original message. Babcock & Brown takes measures to protect the content of its communications. However, Babcock & Brown cannot guarantee that email messages will not be intercepted by third parties or that email messages will be free of errors or viruses. _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang =english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
