I had a similar problem that was fixed with SP2 for both office and winXP. I
have also seen SP2 not install correctly. I would start with that first.
Sorry if this dont help you.

"Alex Baker" wrote:

My outlook client finds teh exchange server when it is on the network but
when outside of the network it can't find the host. It seem sthat no matter
how i configure teh client it always finds the host by this name
name.domain.local this works fine internaly but dosen't externaly.

Question how do i get the outlook client to see the exchange servers DNS
name of name.domain.net