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Title:Microsoft Exchange Server
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Moderator:FLASK2::SYSTEM
Created:Fri Feb 17 1995
Last Modified:Thu Jun 05 1997
Last Successful Update:Thu Jun 05 1997
Number of topics:1099
Total number of notes:5174

1031.0. "Offline to Connected??" by CHOWDA::GLICKMAN (writing from Newport,RI) Thu Apr 24 1997 18:49

    I have a question about using Exchange from Offline to Connected to the
    server.  Can you switch between the two without exiting from from
    Exchange?  And if so, how?
    
    Thanks...
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1031.1AXEL::FOLEYhttp://axel.zko.dec.comThu Apr 24 1997 19:186

	Nope, you have to close Exchange (or Outlook) and reconnect
	selecting the appropriate method. (standard or remote)

						mike
1031.2How to force Exchange to 'ask'???USPS::FPRUSSFrank Pruss, 202-232-7347Mon May 12 1997 08:2118
    I used to be quite happy choosing whether to work connected or work
    off-line when starting Exchange.
    
    For some reason, Exchange has stopped asking!  I still have Exchange
    set to ask for connection type on start-up, but it won't and I always
    have to "work off line".
    
    This is only the case on my HiNote, my Desktop still asks.  As far as
    I can tell the settings are the same on both.  (My Desktop is at a home
    office, so it is dial in for either case...)
    
    Anybody seen/solved this?  It is a state that my HiNote has entered in
    the past, and it has resolved itself inexplicably before, but just as
    inexplicably in came back and seems unusually persistent, and annoying,
    this time.
    
    FJP
    
1031.3MRPTH1::16.121.160.238::slablabounty@mail.dec.comMon May 12 1997 09:246
InBox - Properties - General - Exchange Server - Properties - 
General

and make sure that the "choose connection type" box is 
checked.
1031.4That is the problemUSPS::FPRUSSFrank Pruss, 202-232-7347Mon May 12 1997 10:453
    It is, but I still do not get to choose.
    
    I just get dumped into off-line mode!
1031.5Can you actually access the Exchange Server ?FLASK2::SYSTEMNigel Bridport @REOMon May 12 1997 11:5810
	Are you sure that you can actually connect to the Exchange Server ?

	i.e. can you ping it from your client machine.  It seems that if you
	have the connection type box ticked but Exchange cannot connect to the
	server, Exchange is 'intelligent' enough to know that you only have
	one choice and that is to start you in 'offline' mode, hence it
	doesn't ask you the question.

Nigel.
1031.6Do you have AltaVista Search My Computer installed?16.201.208.203::TapolaSeppo TAPOLA -- CCS Client ServicesMon May 12 1997 12:5020
	I don't know if my observation is relevant to the problem you are
	describing, but here we go.

	I noticed similar behaviour (Exchange not asking the type of
	connectivity: Connected/Off-line) after I installed AltaVista 
	Search My Computer on my laptop. (Wonderfull tool, btw)

	Any time I now try to start Exchange with AltaVista Query Dispatcher
	active Exchange skips the choice of connectivity. Same happends 
	if AltaVista Indexer is running. It seems that these AltaVista tools
	somehow 'lock' the mailboxes so that Exchange doesn't have any 
	other choice than Off-line.

	Perhaps someone with more indepth technical understanding could 
	elaborate on this and explain why this happends? The obvious 
	workaround for me has been to start Exchange before any AltaVista
	tools.

	Regards, 
	
1031.7BINGO!USPS::FPRUSSFrank Pruss, 202-232-7347Mon May 12 1997 16:535
    We have a winner. AltaVista SMC was the culprit.
    
    Whodda thunk it?
    
    FJP
1031.8MAPI related?USPS::FPRUSSFrank Pruss, 202-232-7347Mon May 12 1997 17:2411
    I'll go out on a limb and suggest that this is a 'MAPI thing'. 
    
    Presumably AVSMC uses MAPI when searching your Exchange message store. 
    When these guys are running, Exchange assumes you have already "chosen"
    your connection type (off-line) because AVSMC has already loaded the
    relevant DLL.
    
    If this is the case, is there anything that the AVSMC developer's could
    do about this problem?
    
    FJP