XP is confusing my domain conrtroller with my mail server

[JBruyet]

Hey all, I'm not sure where to start with this issue so here I am in the XP forum. Some of my users (me too ) occasionally have serious delay problems sending emails--about a minute to send an email. When the delay happens this error message pops up in a balloon (pointing to Outlook as the problem child) just above the task bar:

Outlook is trying to retrieve data from the Microsoft Exchange Server srv-DCx.MyDomain.com.

For some reason Outlook is trying to send email through my domain controllers. I've checked DNS and everything is resolving correctly. I've run ipconfig /flushdns & ipconfig /registerdns many times. This doesn't happen very often but often enough that my General Manager would like it fixed. Here's my setup:

Windows Server 2003 Domain level
Exchange 2007 on a 2003 server
XP SP3
Office 2003 SP3

Any ideas anyone?

Thanks,

Joe B

 

[linney]

Have you seen these?


“Outlook is trying to retrieve data from Microsoft Exchange….”

http://anandthearchitect.wordpress....ing-to-retrieve-data-from-microsoft-exchange/

'Requesting data from the Exchange server...' or 'Outlook is trying to retrieve data…' client messages

http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2005/05/25/405353.aspx

Try your luck in one of the Server Forums too.

http://www.tek-tips.com/threadminder.cfm?pid=1674

http://www.tek-tips.com/threadminder.cfm?pid=931

Microsoft: Exchange 2007

http://www.tek-tips.com/threadminder.cfm?pid=1582

 

[JBruyet]

Hey linney, What I've found most often are references to hard drive performance problems on the server. I've run %DiskTime and %IdleTime stats on the server and we're good there. HOWEVER, on the MSexchange.org site I found a couple of references for Reads and Writes per second with recommendations stating that 20 Reads/Writes per second is a good target to shoot for. I did a quick test and had an average of 101.312 with a maximum of 736. I've checked at different times and sometimes we're lower and sometimes we're higher. The highest so far is an average of 390.420 with a maximum of 1032. The answer seems to be more spindles and RAID 1+0. Unfortunately I'm running RAID 5 and three drives. I'll do some hardware upgrades and report back on what the results are.

Thanks,

Joe B