Mail not appearing in outlook inbox

I has just set up an SBS2k server with 3 clients so far (xp pro sp2)

The following is happening on all the clients....

Messaging appears to be working fine except that whenever a message arrives
for a user (be it internal or external) it doesnt appear in the user's
outlook inbox until some interaction takes place with outlook. EG a user may
have a number of messages waiting - when the user selects another outlook
folder, say calendar, all the messages immediately appear in the inbox.

Not sure if this is an outlook issue or an exchange server one. Can anyone
throw any light on this?

Thanks
Stewart

Lanwench
Thu Aug 12 11:11:27 CDT 2004

Did you disable the firewall on the XP boxes? If not, do so & try again. You
shouldn't have the XP firewall enabled on a LAN-facing connection anyway
(protect your network at the perimeter).

Stewart Smith wrote:
> I has just set up an SBS2k server with 3 clients so far (xp pro sp2)
>
> The following is happening on all the clients....
>
> Messaging appears to be working fine except that whenever a message
> arrives for a user (be it internal or external) it doesnt appear in
> the user's outlook inbox until some interaction takes place with
> outlook. EG a user may have a number of messages waiting - when the
> user selects another outlook folder, say calendar, all the messages
> immediately appear in the inbox.
>
> Not sure if this is an outlook issue or an exchange server one. Can
> anyone throw any light on this?
>
> Thanks
> Stewart

Stewart
Thu Aug 12 12:19:02 CDT 2004

Good point! No I forgot to do that.

Seems to have solved the problem, thanks Lanwench

"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"
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> Did you disable the firewall on the XP boxes? If not, do so & try again.
> You
> shouldn't have the XP firewall enabled on a LAN-facing connection anyway
> (protect your network at the perimeter).
>
> Stewart Smith wrote:
>> I has just set up an SBS2k server with 3 clients so far (xp pro sp2)
>>
>> The following is happening on all the clients....
>>
>> Messaging appears to be working fine except that whenever a message
>> arrives for a user (be it internal or external) it doesnt appear in
>> the user's outlook inbox until some interaction takes place with
>> outlook. EG a user may have a number of messages waiting - when the
>> user selects another outlook folder, say calendar, all the messages
>> immediately appear in the inbox.
>>
>> Not sure if this is an outlook issue or an exchange server one. Can
>> anyone throw any light on this?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Stewart
>
>

Bob
Thu Aug 12 17:36:56 CDT 2004

That helped me too. Thanks for that!
I was starting to think that my IS was in trouble.

Next question, after I roll out SP2 next week via SUS, how can I configure
the clients (from the server) to have the firewall disabled?

Bob


"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]" wrote in message ...

> Did you disable the firewall on the XP boxes? If not, do so & try again.
> You
> shouldn't have the XP firewall enabled on a LAN-facing connection anyway
> (protect your network at the perimeter).
>

Lanwench
Thu Aug 12 18:55:36 CDT 2004

Bob Cobb wrote:
> That helped me too. Thanks for that!
> I was starting to think that my IS was in trouble.
>
> Next question, after I roll out SP2 next week via SUS, how can I
> configure the clients (from the server) to have the firewall disabled?

Not sure - haven't looked into it. I'm in no great rush to install it on
production computers myself...have you tested it out on a throwaway PC to
make sure you aren't going to run into problems?

Might want to post in an XP group for more info on SP2 issues & config. I
saw this in m.p.security but haven't looked at it yet:

WF_XPSP2.doc "Deploying Windows Firewall Settings for Microsoft
Windows XP with Service Pack 2" is downloadable from
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=4454e0e1-61fa-447a-bdcd-499f73a637d1


>
> Bob
>
>
> "Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]" wrote in message ...
>
>> Did you disable the firewall on the XP boxes? If not, do so & try
>> again. You
>> shouldn't have the XP firewall enabled on a LAN-facing connection
>> anyway (protect your network at the perimeter).

Bob
Thu Aug 12 19:13:42 CDT 2004

Will do. I tested RC2 on a cloned production PC and all was fine.
Since Tuesday, I have had it working on mine and the LAN admins and the only
issue so far has been the Outlook problem (more just a pest really).
We probably will go with a slow roll out next week.

Thanks

Bob

"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]" wrote in message ...

> Not sure - haven't looked into it. I'm in no great rush to install it on
> production computers myself...have you tested it out on a throwaway PC to
> make sure you aren't going to run into problems?
>
> Might want to post in an XP group for more info on SP2 issues & config. I
> saw this in m.p.security but haven't looked at it yet:
>
> WF_XPSP2.doc "Deploying Windows Firewall Settings for Microsoft
> Windows XP with Service Pack 2" is downloadable from
> http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=4454e0e1-61fa-447a-bdcd-499f73a637d1
>

v-ericsu
Fri Aug 13 09:44:12 CDT 2004

Hi, a couple of information for you.

There is update in SBS 2k3 that to disable the firewall service after SP2 installed; however, in SBS 2000, we do not have a group policy
in SBS that will disable the Windows Firewall, so there is no hotfix for that.

I believe to implement this in Group Policy, you will need to do this first:

307900 Upgrading Windows 2000 Group Policy for Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=307900

Then may be able to do this:

Local Computer Policy/Computer Configuration/AdministrativeTemplates/Network/Network Connections On the right hand side, you will
see "Prohibit use of Internet Connection Firewall on your DNS Domain"

1. To see this under Windows XP, click on Start/Run and type in "mmc".
2. Click "OK". On the file menu, select "Add/Remove Snap-In"
3. In the "Add/Remove Snap-in Window, click on "Add" Select "Group Policy" and select "Add".
4. For "Select Group Policy object" click on Finish Click on "Close' and then click on OK
5. Find the setting as indicated above:
a. Local Computer Policy/Computer Configuration/AdministrativeTemplates/Network/Network Connections
b. On the right hand side, you will see "Prohibit use of Internet Connection Firewall on your DNS Domain"

Hope that information helps.

Best Regards,

Eric Sun,
MCSE2000 / MSCA / MCDBA
Microsoft Online Partner Support

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| Will do. I tested RC2 on a cloned production PC and all was fine.
| Since Tuesday, I have had it working on mine and the LAN admins and the only
| issue so far has been the Outlook problem (more just a pest really).
| We probably will go with a slow roll out next week.
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| Thanks
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| Bob
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| "Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]" wrote in message ...
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| > Not sure - haven't looked into it. I'm in no great rush to install it on
| > production computers myself...have you tested it out on a throwaway PC to
| > make sure you aren't going to run into problems?
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| > Might want to post in an XP group for more info on SP2 issues & config. I
| > saw this in m.p.security but haven't looked at it yet:
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| > WF_XPSP2.doc "Deploying Windows Firewall Settings for Microsoft
| > Windows XP with Service Pack 2" is downloadable from
| > http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=4454e0e1-61fa-447a-bdcd-499f73a637d1
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