JSI Tip 0807. Your Microsoft Exchange Server is unavailable.

Jerold Schulman

November 2, 1998

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If you receive:

   Microsoft Exchange Server       Your Microsoft Exchange Server is unavailable.       You can retry connecting to the server using the network, or      work offline and connect using dial-up networking.       Network problems are preventing connection to the      Microsoft Exchange Server computer. Contact your system      administrator is this condition persists. -or-    Microsoft Exchange Server       The logon credentials supplied were incorrect. Make sure your      username and domain are correct then type your password again.

you may have set HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESystemCurrentControlSetcontrolLSALMCompatibilityLevel to a 2.

Windows NT supports Windows NT challenge/response and LanManager (LM) challenge/response. The valid data values are:

0 - Send LM and Windows NT authentication (default).
1 - Send Windows NT authentication and LM authentication only if the server requests it.
2 - Never send LM authentication.

Windows NT authenitcation can not be used on clients that support only LM authentication, like W95 and WFW.

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