Outlook status shows disconnected.

Posted on June 25th, 2008 in Exchange 2003,Microsoft,Other,Outlook 2002 XP,Outlook 2003 by Gil Kreslavsky

On errors:

Mapi session “/o=COMPANY/ou=Europe/cn=Recipients/cn=User1? exceeded the maximum of 32 objects of type “session”.

Task “Microsoft Exchange Server” reported error (0×80040115): “The
connection to the Microsoft Exchange Server is unavailable. Outlook must be
online or connected to complete this action.”

Task ‘Microsoft Exchange Server’ reported error (0×8004011d): ‘The server is
not available. Contact your administrator if this condition persists.’

Don’t waste your time on profile recreation … It doesn’t help!!!

Things to check .

1.      Ping to exchange server by short name and FQDN

a. If no ping check connectivity and name resolution.

b. Consider adding exchange name/ip to hosts file

2.      Go to file and check if “Work Offline” is not checked

a. If it is uncheck it.

3.      If you have check point client try to

a. Disable security policy

b. Stop Vpn client

c. Remove checkpoint secure remote “v” on local area connection properties ( do it only for testing – remember if you remove the “v” user will be not able to dial VPN.

4.      Run Outlook.exe with rpcdiag switch “outlook.exe /rpcdiag” see where is hanging

5.      On exchange system manger open user related mailbox store in logons section check if user exceeded maximum of 32 connections to the store.

a. If do : To solve this problem for this user, download the sysinternals tool called TCPView and run it on your Exchange server. You will see a whole bunch of connections. Work out the IP address of user, and then using TCP view terminate all sessions to that IP address.

b. Other option is to mount / unmount store – not recommended

6.      In order to Increase default 32 MAPI connections limit do the following things

a. Click Start, click Run, type regedit in the Open box, and then click OK.

Locate and then click the following registry sub key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\MSExchangeIS\ParametersSystem

If the Maximum Allowed Sessions Per User entry does not exist, do the following:

On the Edit menu, point to New, and then click DWORD Value.

Type Maximum Allowed Sessions Per User as the entry name, and then press ENTER.

Right-click the Maximum Allowed Sessions Per User entry, and then click Modify

Click decimal, type the value that you want to set in the Value data box, and then click OK.

Exit Registry Editor.

Click Start, click Run, type services.msc in the Open box, and then click OK.

Click the MSExchange Information Store service, and then click Restart Service.

Didn’t solve the problem ? Read Related Microsoft solutions

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/842022

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/830836

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/840835

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/821188

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/821188

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=898060

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  1. Gil Kreslavsky said,

    on July 13th, 2008 at 2:20 pm

    You can try that one
    Go to – Tools >Account options>Chose your account>More Settings> On Advanced Tab remove “V” from download shared folders..

  2. Rob said,

    on October 20th, 2008 at 6:56 pm

    It could also be as simple as your security log being full.


  3. on January 18th, 2009 at 4:45 pm

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  4. fern said,

    on June 10th, 2009 at 8:49 pm

    may want to go into exchange data file and make sure your data file/mailbox -Exchnage proxy settings are set to owa settings for your site. I found somehow they were changed to server name, once i changed it-the connection was restored.

  5. Avtar said,

    on July 27th, 2010 at 10:58 am

    Thanks Rob. Clearing the system logs, resolved the issue with my outlook.

  6. sproket90 said,

    on July 30th, 2010 at 3:58 pm

    added the reg entry fixed my issue. thank you for the help!

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