mncoughlin

It is OK to shut down the service IF- Your network has another DNS server acting as a primary or secondary server. The other DNS servers are advertised to your clients If you do not verify this you will not have IP to Name resolutions.

First, the 169.xxx.xxx.xxx address is the MS way of showing you that even though you have 'get a ip address automatically' is on, the machine did not receive a response from the DHCP server. - Normal behavior. Now, it could be that you nic card is not sending an arp broadcast request for an IP address. In that case, the DHCP server wouldn't even know you are there. This makes sense if you hard code an IP address. The nic card is working with a hard coded IP but not with DHCP, I would first remove the stack/nic card from the machine through device manager and networks (my computer/properties and control panel). Reboot the system and let thm reload. Configure you IP stack as needed and see what happens. If it still doesn't come up you may want to try getting another NIC and see if that works. Goo Luck!

If you upgraded to Exch 2003 you will need to make sure you are using Outlook2003 with your machine at the latest patch level. Then you will need the server to allow RPC over HTTP and then configure your Outlook client to use this process. Here are a couple of links to help out: http://www.petri.co.il/configure_rpc_over_https_on_a_single_server.htm http://www.petri.co.il/configure_outlook_2003_to_use_rpc_over_http.htm This will allow complete synchronization of all of your Outlook folders as if you are on the local network.