Questions tagged [outlook]

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

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Would an Exchange Server be appropriate for this situation?

I've just started volunteering at a local organisation and I've been asked to come up with a solution to the following problem. However, networking is hardly my forte so I thought I'd ask here before I went (blindly) down a particular path. I think…
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Event ID 9331 MSExchangeSA & Event ID 9335 MSExchangeSA

I get this two Exchange 2010 Global Address book related event IDs: Event ID 9331 MSExchangeSA OABGen encountered error 80004005 (internal ID 50101f1) accessing the public folder database while generating the offline address list for address…
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Push contacts to exchange users

I'm using Exchange 2003, Outlook 2007/2003. Is there a way to push a set of contacts to users? I would prefer to not use the GAL and I really don't want to send csv files for them to import. Any help is appreciated. EDIT: If someone has a great…
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Outlook 2010 exchange setup prompts for username@domain.local rather than email@domain.com

We use a hosted exchange service. When users want to set up Outlook 2010 to access their account, they open Outlook and run through the configuration steps. Autodiscover is enabled, and in the user's active directory profile, their email address is…
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Outlook reads disconnected, all HTTPS/SSL traffic redirected

The problem came to me when a user complained they couldn't send or receive emails. Outlook 2010 reads "Disconnected" in the bottom right. I have tried everything to reconnect, but no luck. Tried: Repairing Network Connection Cached mode…
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Preventing double booked appointments in Outlook

At our organization we use a series of shared Outlook calendars to schedule out our conference rooms. All domain users are setup as authors of these calenders. We are now running into a problem where the end user is either not checking/caring if a…
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Good tool for searching E-Mail in Outlook?

As a System Administrator, I tend to accumulate a lot of E-Mail. And, unfortunately, my current employer requires Windows on the desktop and Outlook for e-mail. My question is, are there any good tools for indexing/searching Outlook E-Mail? …
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Exchange 2010 Archive to PST

I would like to do as I used to be able to do with Exmerge with older versions of Exchange. Basically, I need to be able to find messages that are older than a certain date, export those messages to a PST file and then delete them from the…
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Exchange Mailbox Analysis

I have a few users whose mailboxes seem to grow much more rapidly than others. For example we archived off a load of mail from one particular user less than a year ago to get his mailbox down to about 4GB (yes - I know, that's ridiculous, but we're…
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Managing Room Calendars in Exchange/Outlook 2010

When a meeting is created that conflicts with another meeting on the Room calendar, is it possible to have the conflicting meeting forwarded to a delegate for a manual resolution?
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ZFS, dedupe and PST files

I am interested to know what would be expected maximum dedupe ratio for a set of PST files. I have ~40G of pst files from ~15 usres with high level of duplication of attachments. I am running tests to see if I can have significant space savings if I…
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ActiveSync does not sync appointments from iCalendar files

There is a problem with ActiveSync and iCalendar files, at least with Outlook/Exchange: you receive an email with an iCalendar attachment, .vcs or .ics file. you accept the meeting request or double click and add the attachment New appointment…
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outlook command-line switches

I'm trying to produce a shortcut for user that will launch their outlook email or calendar. the switches I'm using are: /select outlook:inbox (or /select outlook:calendar) /recycle (so that there is only one outlook window open) They both work…
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How to set up email alias in exchange 2010

I have a couple users who need multiple email addresses (alias) forwarded to their accounts but setting up a separate user and forwarding the email is showing the email to the users main address instead of the aliased email. For example, here is…
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