XCLN: Reinstalling Exchange Client Deletes Files
Article ID: 152684
Article Last Modified on 10/28/2006
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Exchange Client 5.5
- Microsoft Exchange Client 5.0
- Microsoft Exchange Client 4.0
- Microsoft Exchange Client 5.0
- Microsoft Exchange Client 4.0
- Microsoft Exchange MS-DOS client 5.0
This article was previously published under Q152684
SYMPTOMS
If you have a dual boot machine, a Microsoft Exchange client for one of the
operating systems on drive C:, a Microsoft Exchange client for the other
operating system installed on drive D:, and you reinstall the Microsoft
Exchange client on drive D;, several files will be deleted from the
Microsoft Exchange client directory on drive C:.
This will only occur if both Microsoft Exchange clients were installed
using the default directory name. In addition, if you perform a Remove All
before the reinstall, no files on drive C: will be affected.
MORE INFORMATION
The files that will be removed from the C:\Exchange directory are
Exchng32.exe, Mlshext.dll, and Scanpst.exe.
STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in version 4.0 of Microsoft
Exchange. We are researching this problem and will post new information
here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.
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