Article ID: 304849
Article Last Modified on 9/23/2005
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Outlook 2000 Standard Edition
This article was previously published under Q304849
IMPORTANT: This article contains information about modifying the registry. Before you modify the registry, make sure to back it up and make sure that you understand how to restore the registry if a problem occurs. For information about how to back up, restore, and edit the registry, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
256986 Description of the Microsoft Windows Registry
For a Microsoft Outlook 2002 version of this article, see 305572.
SYMPTOMS
If you use Network Address Translation (NAT), you may not see new e-mail or receive notifications for new e-mail in Outlook 2000.
CAUSE
This problem can occur in a NAT environment because Outlook 2000 never receives the UDP (Universal Datagram Packets) that the Microsoft Exchange Server sends, and you cannot route the UDP packets to a computer that is running Outlook 2000.
The computer that is running Outlook 2000 returns to polling the Exchange Server for new e-mail messages by using the Remote Procedure Call (RPC) to work around this problem. However, a logic error exists with the Exchange Server and it does not reply to the polling request.
RESOLUTION
To resolve this problem, use the following two methods to configure Outlook 2000 to use polling instead of UDP to receive new e-mail notifications:
- Apply the associated hotfix to the computer that is running Outlook 2000.
- Manually add registry entries.
How to Use the Hotfix
To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Microsoft Office 2000. For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
276367 OFF2000: How to Obtain the Latest Office 2000 Service Pack
IMPORTANT: Before you install Microsoft Office 2000 Service Pack 3 (SP-3), you must have Microsoft Office 2000 Service Release 1/1a (SR-1/SR-1a) installed first. To obtain SR-1/SR-1a, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
245025 OFF2000: How to Obtain and Install Microsoft Office 2000 Service Release 1/1a (SR-1/SR-1a)
The English-language version of this fix should have the following file attributes or later:
Date Time Version Size File name
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07/06/2001 10:48:50pm 5.5.3160.0 594,192 Emsmdb32.dll
07/06/2001 10:32:36pm 9.0.0.5505 5,328,946 Outllib.dll
The fix is also available for the following language(s): German, Italian
How to Manually Add Registry Entries
WARNING: If you use Registry Editor incorrectly, you may cause serious problems that may require you to reinstall your operating system. Microsoft cannot guarantee that you can solve problems that result from using Registry Editor incorrectly. Use Registry Editor at your own risk.
NOTE: If Office 2000 (SP-3) has already been installed, you do not have to install the fix. If Office 2000 (SP-3) has already been installed, follow these steps to add the registry values to apply the settings.
To add the registry values to the computer that is running Outlook 2000, follow these steps:
- Click Start, and then click Run.
- In the Open box, type Regedt32.exe, and then click OK.
- Locate the following key in the registry:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\9.0\Outlook\
- On the Edit menu, click Add Key, and then add the following registry key:
Key Name: RPC
Class: None - Click OK.
- Locate the following key in the registry:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\9.0\Outlook\RPC\
- On the Edit menu, click Add Value, and then add the following registry value:
Value Name: ForcePolling
Data Type: REG_DWORD
Value: 1 - Locate the following key in the registry:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\
- On the Edit menu, click Add Key, and then add the following registry key:
Key Name: Office
Class: None - Locate the following key in the registry:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Office\
- On the Edit menu, click Add Key, and then add the following registry key:
Key Name: 9.0
Class: None - Locate the following key in the registry:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Office\9.0\
- On the Edit menu, click Add Key, and then add the following registry key:
Key Name: Outlook
Class: None - Locate the following key in the registry:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Office\9.0\Outlook\
- On the Edit menu, click Add Key, and then add the following registry key:
Key Name: RPC
Class: None - Locate the following key in the registry:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Office\9.0\Outlook\RPC\
- On the Edit menu, click Add Value, and then add the following registry value:
Value Name: ForcePolling
Data Type: REG_DWORD
Value: 1 - Quit Registry Editor
- Restart the computer.
STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.
This problem was first corrected in Microsoft Office 2000 Service Pack 3 (SP-3).
MORE INFORMATION
Outlook 2000 uses both UDP and polling to notify you of new e-mail messages.
With UDP, Outlook 2000 sends the server the client's Internet Protocol (IP) address and notifies the server to send the UDP when there are e-mail messages waiting on the server.
The polling mechanism occurs when Outlook 2000 starts a thread that requests information from the server every 60 seconds with the RPC, by default, for any outstanding e-mail messages.
The default preference for e-mail notification in Outlook 2000 is UDP, and if that fails, then it uses polling. The previously mentioned registry value defines whether or not to use polling as the default for new e-mail notification. The value of 1 indicates that polling is used as the default by Outlook 2000 and that UDP will not be used. The default polling time is 60 seconds and is set at the Exchange Server.
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