Chapter 10 -- MAPI-Based Clients in a Novell NetWare Environment

Chapter 10

About This Chapter

Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server is tightly integrated into the Microsoft Windows 2000 Server architecture. It is not available on any other platform. As soon as you decide to install Microsoft's most powerful messaging system, you decide to implement Windows 2000 Server and the Active Directory directory service on your computer network as well—even if your network does not contain any Windows 2000 Server computers yet. If you are a Novell NetWare administrator, you will benefit from knowing about the tools that let you integrate Windows 2000 into your NetWare infrastructure.

Native NetWare workstations cannot access Exchange 2000 resources without an additional network component—the Client for Microsoft Networks. This is because neither Microsoft Client Services for NetWare nor Novell NetWare Client software comes with the required remote procedure calls (RPCs) services that Microsoft Outlook 2000 needs for its client-to-server communication. If your NetWare environment supports TCP/IP, you can avoid the installation of the Client for Microsoft Networks by using Internet-based messaging clients or Outlook Web Access (see Chapter 11, "Internet-Based Client Access").

This chapter discusses the main aspects of combining Windows 2000 Server and NetWare in Lesson 1 and introduces tools that simplify your daily work. Lesson 2 then covers the client-side requirements for establishing RPC connections to an Exchange 2000 server and explains how to troubleshoot client connectivity problems.

Before You Begin

To complete this chapter:

• Be familiar with the concepts and administration of Novell NetWare and Novell Directory Services (NDS).
• Be familiar with the concepts and administration of Microsoft Windows 2000 Server and Active Directory.
• Understand the requirements for using Outlook 2000 in an Exchange 2000 environment (see Chapter 3, "Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server Architecture," Chapter 8, "Microsoft Outlook 2000 Deployment," and Chapter 9, "MAPI-Based Clients").