Craig Putnam's questions

I have an Exchange 2010 organization installed at two sites with one server at each site. I set up my local site first. Exchange Management Console always chooses to connect to the remote server instead of a local one. I can open the properties of "Microsoft Exchange On-Premises (remotemail.example.com)" and tell EMC to connect to the local server, but it ignores the request and stays connected to the remote server.

How do I get EMC to default to the local server, and why can't I change which server it connects to?

After upgrading a domain from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010, I cannot access the public folders from Outlook 2003 or Outlook 2007. I can access the public folders from OWA. The error message in Outlook 2003 is:

Unable to display the folder. Microsoft Office Outlook could not access the specified folder location. Could not open the item. Try again.

So far, trying again has not helped. :-P

According to the Outlook RPC diagnostic window, Outlook is connecting to the Exchange 2010 server when it tries to get the public folders.