CommonOddity
IS-IT--Management
Not sure if anyone else has come across this. I tried searching the forums, and googled around a fair bit to no avail.
My situation: I currently am employed at a relatively large company (130 or so people) as an IT guy (co-op term). We use Microsoft Exchange 2003, and people use Outlook 2007 for the most part, but a few do use 2003.
The issue: The company uses group policies, credentials and all that fun stuff on a domain for the sake of (somewhat) easy manipulation and remote configuration changes. This includes Outlook, usernames, passwords, etc the whole nine yards.
Most of the company laptops are dell, with docking stations at the cubicles (Latitude D-series, ranging from 600's to 630's primarily). Whenever a user undocks their computer and switches between a hardwired internet connection and their wifi - while Outlook is open and connected - Outlook tries to reconnect and asks for the username and password.
Even once it has been entered, it does not connect, and remains disconnected. Whence reconnected onto a docking station or with an RJ-45 the issue remains the same and remains that way for about 15-20 minutes.
I've been trying to look this up but I haven't come across an issue like this. Being a telecommunications student I've attempted to try and understand this from both the Application layer and the Transport layer... Mayhaps the user account 'ghosts' much like IRC ping timeouts would do to folks connected to the server. I first thought this may have been an issue.
Then I thought that the issue was with TCP and that the pseudo-synchronization with Exchange dropped, and wasn't able to re-establish another session.
If anyone could shed some light on this or even point me in the right direction, it would be most greatly appreciated!
Thank you.
My situation: I currently am employed at a relatively large company (130 or so people) as an IT guy (co-op term). We use Microsoft Exchange 2003, and people use Outlook 2007 for the most part, but a few do use 2003.
The issue: The company uses group policies, credentials and all that fun stuff on a domain for the sake of (somewhat) easy manipulation and remote configuration changes. This includes Outlook, usernames, passwords, etc the whole nine yards.
Most of the company laptops are dell, with docking stations at the cubicles (Latitude D-series, ranging from 600's to 630's primarily). Whenever a user undocks their computer and switches between a hardwired internet connection and their wifi - while Outlook is open and connected - Outlook tries to reconnect and asks for the username and password.
Even once it has been entered, it does not connect, and remains disconnected. Whence reconnected onto a docking station or with an RJ-45 the issue remains the same and remains that way for about 15-20 minutes.
I've been trying to look this up but I haven't come across an issue like this. Being a telecommunications student I've attempted to try and understand this from both the Application layer and the Transport layer... Mayhaps the user account 'ghosts' much like IRC ping timeouts would do to folks connected to the server. I first thought this may have been an issue.
Then I thought that the issue was with TCP and that the pseudo-synchronization with Exchange dropped, and wasn't able to re-establish another session.
If anyone could shed some light on this or even point me in the right direction, it would be most greatly appreciated!
Thank you.
