December 2004

HOW TO: View the Security tab in Exchange Admin tool

Every time I get asked this, I remember the name of the key – ShowSecurityPage – but forget the complete path. It’s easier to simply keep the registry hack in a .REG file, so here it is. Right-click on the link, save, remove the .txt from the filename. ShowSecurityPage.reg If you’d rather do it manually, […]

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Cannot Book Resource – Outlook thinks it’s a recurring appointment

Issue: You try to reserve a conference room for a meeting, but get an error – XX Conference Room has declined your meeting because it is recurring. You must book each meeting separately with this resource”. But it is a single instance meeting! Cause: If several people have the resource’s calendar open and make changes […]

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Seeing Double? (Default Email Folders)

Situation: Upgraded to Office 2003 Professional. Outlook shows 2 of each default/system folder like Calendar, Contacts, Notes, Journal, Tasks, Junk E-mail, etc. (Not completely sure at what point this happened, but it happened within hours of Outlook 2003 upgrade, so that’s the most likely suspect.) Outlook thinks the new folders are the default, so new […]

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Users Cannot Save or Send Mail in Japanese using OWA

Users in Japan cannot send and receive messages in Japanese. They get an error in Japanese. Translation: You cannot send the message because the code page of this language was not found on the server. Contact your system administrator This is actually documented in the Exchange Server 2003 RTM Release Notes. Go to Known Issues […]

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