Global Catalog server for Exchange server

[snowsmart]

I have two DCs ( both of them are the ADS Global Catalog server) and one Exchange 2000 server on my network. Whenever I restart or shutdown one of the DCs ( not the Master roles one), users on the network always expenerice outlook freeze problem when they try to send an email at the same time.

I think this is something to do with the Global Catalog server.

My question is, since there is one Global Catalog server avaiable on the network, why outlook/Exchange can not 'see' it.


thanks

Henry

 

[adcfaq]

right click exchange server in ESM, check dsaccess tab, what's GC info there? u need to confirm it is pointing to at least one GC. right?

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[LordMarshal]

We have also seen this issue numerous times within our environment, even with GC's that supposedly do not have anything pointing at them for catalog services. Pretty much what I got from M$ was, "really? It should not do that."

In examining the event logs from around the time do you see anything striking? My guess is that this may just be unavoidable since I have seen this behavior fairly consistently accross many environments.