Like many other people I am a bit confused about Exchange 2000 and DST. I called Microsoft and of course they told me the patch for Exchange 2000 is $4000. I believe I fully understand the issue and what the fixes are. Can somebody please confirm this is correct: - We already fixed our Windows 2000 server running Exchange 2000 using TZedit.. - All of our XP clients are fixed using the patch Microsoft released. - From what I can tell the Patch that Microsoft Released for Exchange 2003 and are selling for Exchange 2000 is solely to fix CDO (Collaboration Data Objects) based programs such as Outlook web access since these use Internal time zone tables from Exchange. Regular Outlook uses the OS times. - The Exchange/Outlook Calendar update tool was made to correct any appointments/meetings that were scheduled prior to updating the clients and the Windows OS on the Exchange server. Any appointments/meetings scheduled after the the client and server OS were patched will be correct if scheduled through Outlook and not OWA. So in closing if you are running Exchange 2000 and you are not using Outlook Web Access or any other CDO based application you really do not need to pay for the $4000 patch. You need to fix the Exchange server OS using TZedit and patch the client. Then you need to run the Exchange Calendar Update Tool. All meetings scheduled through Outlook should be fine after that. Can somebody please let me know if this is correct? Thanks! Eric
On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 13:56:07 -0800, Person wrote: >Like many other people I am a bit confused about Exchange 2000 and DST. I >called Microsoft and of course they told me the patch for Exchange 2000 is >$4000. I believe I fully understand the issue and what the fixes are. > >Can somebody please confirm this is correct: > >- We already fixed our Windows 2000 server running Exchange 2000 using >TZedit.. > >- All of our XP clients are fixed using the patch Microsoft released. > >- From what I can tell the Patch that Microsoft Released for Exchange 2003 >and are selling for Exchange 2000 is solely to fix CDO (Collaboration Data >Objects) based programs such as Outlook web access since these use Internal >time zone tables from Exchange. Regular Outlook uses the OS times. > >- The Exchange/Outlook Calendar update tool was made to correct any >appointments/meetings that were scheduled prior to updating the clients and >the Windows OS on the Exchange server. Any appointments/meetings scheduled >after the the client and server OS were patched will be correct if scheduled >through Outlook and not OWA. > >So in closing if you are running Exchange 2000 and you are not using Outlook >Web Access or any other CDO based application you really do not need to pay >for the $4000 patch. You need to fix the Exchange server OS using TZedit and >patch the client. Then you need to run the Exchange Calendar Update Tool. >All meetings scheduled through Outlook should be fine after that. > >Can somebody please let me know if this is correct? > >Thanks! > > >Eric As I understand all the reading on this, and it's been far too extensive for something that should be so damn easy if the application had been totally reliant on the OS, where time comes from (rant over), If you just use Outlook on XP against E2K and have nothing else that's interacting with Exchange then you should be ok.
