Outlook

Outlook 2007 has a new hotfix package: February 24, 2009

Microsoft has released a new hotfix package for Outlook 2007. Details in KB 961752.

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Troubleshooting Exchange Server Antispam: Disable Outlook Junk Mail

When troubleshooting antispam issues, particularly false positives (legitimate email incorrectly tagged as spam), frequently you run into scenarios where Exchange Server antispam features seem to be working correctly but you still see messages being delivered to the Junk Mail folder instead of the Inbox. For instance, you whitelist a sender or sender domain, or add […]

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Quarantine Mailbox: Displaying original SCL, sender and recipients

In Exchange Server 2007, messages delivered to the quarantine mailbox show up as DSNs sent by the postmaster address of the default domain. In HOW TO: Expose original senders and recipients of quarantined messages, we modified the QTNE.cfg form for Microsoft Outlook to reveal original senders and recipients. Although the original sender and recipient fields […]

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While you were out: Scheduling meetings and OOFs

Although it’s been an accepted (and expected) practice to setup OOF auto-responses while you are out of office, I haven’t been a big fan of OOFs in the past. My reasons: 1. I often forget to turn off OOFs once I’m back in the office, or forget to set these up in the first place— […]

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Entourage 2008: OOFs coming to the Mac

With the release of Office 2008 for the Mac, Entourage users will be able to use Out of Office messages just like the rest of the world (i.e. Windows users with Microsoft Outlook) have been doing forever. Entourage 2008 supports Exchange Server 2007’s enhanced OOF functionality, including the ability to schedule OOF start and stop […]

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HOW TO: Expose original senders and recipients of quarantined messages

The Content Filter Agent in Exchange Server 2007 allows you to quarantine messages above the SCLQuarantineThreshold. Messages so quarantined are delivered to a quarantine mailbox, specified in the Content Filter configuration. [Read previous post for more info, “Exchange 2007 Content Filter: How to move messages to users’ Junk Mail folder“] Messages arriving in the quarantine […]

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Fixed: Outlook 2007 Performance issues with large mailboxes

If you’ve been frustrated with Outlook 2007’s performance when working with large mailboxes or PST files, Microsoft has a hotfix for you – KB 933943: Description of the update for Outlook 2007: April 13, 2007. The update also fixes a couple of other issues documented in this KBA. You won’t need to call Microsoft support […]

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Send as alternate email address in Outlook and Exchange

This is one of the more frequently asked questions in different forums and still a major annoyance – how do I send as an alternate address (aka proxy address or alias)? In most organizations, users have multiple email addresses to meet business requirements such as multiple business units, business names and domain names, mergers, acquisitions […]

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DST 2007: Is there an Outlook DST “patch”?

There seems to be some confusion about whether Outlook itself has a DST 2007 patch. As noted in a previous post “DST 2007: Understanding what needs to be done and how to do it“, there’s the Outlook Calendar Update Tool – TzMove.exe (“Time Zone Data Update Tool for Microsoft Office Outlook” in Microsoft-speak). This is […]

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DST 2007: Understanding what needs to be done and how to do it

As we head closer to March 11, which is when the extended Daylight Savings Time kicks in – 3 weeks earlier this time, thanks to the Energy Policy Act, here are answers to some more commonly asked questions. This is not meant to be a comprehensive guide to DST 2007 (at least as of writing) […]

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