I have seen this problem and not until I read the message several times, did I realise that it was referring to "another" Exchange server. I had upgraded a clients machine, used the WinXP import facility and connected to their current Exchange Server. In times of high traffic, I saw this message for 5-10 seconds. Only after trying to really see what was happening, did I read the error properly! Is this the process that you followed? BTW two new knowledgebase articles on fixing issues between Server2000 SP3 & WinXP Pro SP1 - 811492 & 810907. These and other articles may help shed some light on the issue that you are seeing! KB 329170, 329170, 331519 Also refer to http://www.smallbizserver.net <http://www.smallbizserver.net/> and <http://www.winxpnews.com/?id=62> http://www.winxpnews.com/ Other threads from http://www.MSExchange.org/ Sometimes recreating the user profile on Outlook has solved this problem for me. Did you try create a new Outlook profile? From what I know last time in old OL97, all folders info are cache onto registry. Create a new profile will start everything fresh in the registry, that is my understanding. We just migrated from Ex55 to 2k last month, some OL still point to old servers, by creating a new profile this problem is solved. Check your network. Requesting data from the server usually point to network problem. -----Original Message----- From: satish garimalla [mailto:satishgarimalla@xxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 10:00 AM To: [ExchangeList] Subject: [exchangelist] Unable to connect to exchange server http://www.MSExchange.org/ I have a problem in connecting to exchange server.After installing office XP in a perticular machine when I tried to connect outlook to exchage server it is giving me a error message that it could not contact exchage server.The same user is able to connect to exchange from another machine. The error message is as fallows. Requesting data from Exchange server "Retrieving data from Microsoft Exchange server .You can either cancel the request or minimize message to windows task bar or wait untill the message closes automatically " After that it says that it cannot connect to exchange server.All the other network connections seem to be allright and I don't think it is a problem with office also. This happened to some of the machines some time before but didn't last longer..Added to my difficulties this machine belongs to my boss and I need to sort this asap..Can anyone help me out..Thanks in advance.... Satish _____ Cricket World Cup 2003 http://server1.msn.co.in/msnspecials/worldcup03/ <http://g.msn.com/8HMVENIN/2728> ------------------------------------------------------ List Archives: http://www.webelists.com/cgi/lyris.pl?enter=exchangelist Exchange Newsletters: http://www.msexchange.org/pages/newsletter.asp Exchange FAQ: http://www.msexchange.org/pages/larticle.asp?type=FAQ ------------------------------------------------------ ISA Server Resource Site: http://www.isaserver.org Windows Security Resource Site: http://www.windowsecurity.com/ Windows 2000/NT Fax Solutions: http://www.ntfaxfaq.com ------------------------------------------------------ You are currently subscribed to this MSExchange.org Discussion List as: exchlist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send a blank email to $subst('Email.Unsub')