DNS question about GC pointers

[firecomp]

Here's a qick question In dns ->Foward Look Up Zones->Domain.com->GC(global Catalog)->Sites-> Your Site -TCP should you have 2 pionters if you have 2 windows 2000 AD domain controllers?

I only have one "server2"

I had a problem the other day where some of my users could not open there outlook becouse it could not find the global adress list! So I looked at tools->Addrees ->Address Book -> global adresslist-> Properties and found some users had "server 1" and some users had "server 2". Server 1 has exchange2000 "Server 2" use to be our exchange server until we move it to server1 and completly removed it form "server 2".

A simple restart of "server 2" ended up fixing my problem but my outlook clients are still grabing the GC from two different servers and I think I have a few dns issues that need resolved before this happens again.

Any help would be great or good links,
Thanks

 

[firecomp]

Ok update!
It happen again it still dont know what the issue is HELP PLEASE and restarting fix it once again.

 

[rkatyal]

what happens if you Reconfigure your outlook mail settings and removing all the profiles and then readding them using Server1?? Did you try that yet???

 

[firecomp]

Update!
rkatyal yes tried that, when this happens you can longer reach the exchange server even though its running. Only when I reboot the server (2) does everything work again.

I check, server2 is the only gc server.So I was thinking if server1 had the gc also(gc being the global catalog) to that this would resolve my issue. Does anyone know how? Does this sound right?

I still don't understand why some clients pick the global address list from server1 and others from server2 if the one server2 is the only gc server.

 

[beerhunter2]

GC (Global Catalog) and GAL (Global Address List) are 2 different and separate things. The GC relates to the domains Active Directory (and there should only be one). The GAL relates to Exchange.

I think for your issue, you need to visit the problem workstations. Delete the existing email accounts, and then recreate them to point to your Exchange server.


Help! I've fallen and I can't reach my beer.

 

[firecomp]

I could buy into that but its eveyone until I restart server 2. Server 2 is the gc server and server one is the exchange server.

I made both servers gc servers now and added the correct dns pionters but i dunno if that will fix my issue or not it seems to happen ever 20-24 hours it crashes.