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Outlook is a standalone or groupware client for Microsoft Exchange. It is used for Email, contacts, tasks and calendar.

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Multiple Outlook users on a Single PST file?

I am guessing the answer is no, but can multiple outlook users use the same PST file at the same time from a file server? The idea being to get some old stuff off of the Exchange server that a couple people would still need to view... Alternatively,…
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How to suppress an unwanted external Autodiscover lookup?

In a small network with Exchange 2007, when starting Outlook 2010 (and once in a while afterwards), users get a prompt to confirm that it's safe to get account configuration information from…
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Samba4 locked pst files

i have a samba4 server that holds my clients outlook pst files, if the outlook client or the machine crashes i must go to the server to kill the PID manually. i saw there was "reset on zero vc =yes" parameter that can solve the problem but that is…
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How to get around Outlook/Exchange's Rules and Alerts 32KB limit?

I use Outlook's Rules and Alerts facility to automatically file my emails. I find it a great time saver. However, I've recently been unable to add further rules - Outlook suggests that there is insufficient space to store all of my rules. I've…
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Does Outlook continue to auto-discover account settings for already configured accounts? Can it be prevented?

fail2ban just locked me out of our website because something from my desktop was hammering port 443 on the server (which is not in use). I saw my IP also requesting "GET /autodiscover/autodiscover.xml HTTP/1.1", so I assume that's what's going on on…
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Disabling Specific Options in Outlook 2010 through Group Policy?

Alright, all research thus far has failed me, this must be a somewhat obscure problem. I think I am close but I need an answer as to whether or not what I am trying to do is possible so I don't waste more of my time if I am heading down a dead…
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Exchange Server 2007 Setup

I'm working on a upgrade to Exchange 2007 and I wanted to get some advise on hardware choices. We currently have an Exchange 2003 STD server with 400 users split between 6 AD Sites, that is housed on a single server. We need to move to a redundant,…
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Prevent user "click-expansion" of Exchange distribution group?

I am a Unix guy who recently picked up powershell to help my Exchange admin coworkers implement a challenging project in Exchange 2010. (The requirements we've been given are challenging if not impossible to meet.) I'll try to keep this simple.…
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Add Pictures to Active Directory for Outlook Contacts

What I'm trying to do here without wasting too much time is we want our company to have all the associate photos as their contact pictures in Outlook. I know Outlook 2007 and Outlook 2010 have a lot of places now where contact pictures appear, if…
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Personal email archive alternative to PST files

If you aren't willing or able to prevent users from keeping old emails "forever", what solution do you have? Exchange 2007 allows pretty massive mailboxes, but lots of people still recommend against it (although it's unclear whether there's a real…
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How does Outlook identify "Extra Line Breaks"

I am writing a script that emails the output to me, and I read it in Outlook. For some reason Outlook removes all the line breaks in the message, and gives me a little notice that it has removed the extra line breaks from the message How can I fix…
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What's your maximum email message size, and what do you do for bigger files?

As the subject says... We're using Exchange 2007 and (mostly) Outlook 2003 and have a limit of 20MB. For larger files, we have an ftp server that people inside can easily copy files to or from, and we have an account on that server that we can…
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Exchange 2003-Exchange 2010 post migration GAL/OAB problem

I am very new to Exchange so forgive my newbie-ness. I've exhausted Google trying to find a way to solve my problem so I'm hoping some of you gurus can shed some light on my next steps. Please forgive my bungling around through this. The problem I…
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Email automatically deleted after few minutes in Outlook

Hi all, I have a user here, our CEO, that can't keep his incoming email more than 3-4 minutes in his inbox. He is able to get the email, we see the popup confirming the email has been received but suddently, without warning, the emails go away! I…
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How to recover outlook emails

It has happened many times in my organization that some people have left in not really good terms. So when you go to check their computers you find that they normally delete their emails, sometimes you can find them in the deleted folder (lol) but…
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