Thanks for the suggestions, but everything checks out...I even copied the EV controls files to the other controls directories for the base Exchange install and the SP1 install..and it is happening for other users as well...also seeing it on 3 other Exchange servers...all of them are E2003 SP2. EV icons show up for archived items, and the shortcut shows up in the preview pane, just can't open the message, no search or AE or archiving buttons, and attachment is @65B...
Network adapter on EV server and Exchange is teamed...not sure if it makes a difference, but when checking proxyconfig settings, it did put in a 0.0.0.0 IP addy in there for the one NIC that was disabled on the Exchange server. Not sure if this is related to access denied messages in the IIS logs on Exchange, but EV server isn't seeing anything coming from the Exchange server when accessing archived items (as I've looked at the IIS logs there as well to confirm that)
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