XADM: Browse Does Not Locate Exchange Servers Across NT Domains

• Microsoft Exchange Server, versions 4.0, 5.0, 5.5

SYMPTOMS

When you run the Exchange Administrator program and choose File, Connect to Server, and then click the Browse button to locate all available Microsoft Exchange Server computers, you may receive the following error message:

The list of Microsoft Exchange Server Computers is not available,
because no Microsoft Exchange Server Computer could be located.

CAUSE

When you click the Browse button without any server name typed in, Microsoft Exchange Server uses the Windows NT RPC locator service to find a Microsoft Exchange Server computer. This service looks only in the current domain and if no Microsoft Exchange Server computers are found in this domain, the above error message is reported.

This is by design. This problem occurs only when there are no Exchange Server computers available in the domain and only the Microsoft Exchange Administrator program is installed in the domain.

WORKAROUND

Type in the name of one of the Microsoft Exchange Server computers, and then click the Browse button. This will locate and connect to the Microsoft Exchange Server computer in a different domain.

Keywords          : XADM 
Version           : WINDOWS:4.0,5.0,5.5
Platform          : WINDOWS 
Issue type        : kbbug 

Last Reviewed: April 1, 1999