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When, if and how do you modify Outlook Providers?

As mentioned in my previous post on the subject of Autodiscover Service and Outlook Providers - I wanted to follow-up with the discussion of modifying the providers. What is the impact when we change the Outlook provider configuration? In what scenarios...

Published Mon, Sep 09 2008 10:47 AM by You Had Me At EHLO...

Filed under: Exchange 2007, Role: Client Access, Tips 'n Tricks, Outlook

Utilizing Time Zone Data Update Tool for Microsoft Office Outlook V3.0 functionality in the Exchange Calendar Update Configuration Tool V 2.0

This August 2008, Microsoft has released an update to the Outlook Time Zone Update Tool. This new version (Version 3.0) offers, amongst others, better support for Israel and Brazil with regards to time zone handling and rebasing of calendars. The Exchange...

Published Fri, Aug 08 2008 2:12 PM by You Had Me At EHLO...

Filed under: Exchange 2007, Tips 'n Tricks, Outlook, Tools, Administration

How does Outlook Anywhere work (and not work)?

It's been a while since I've been thinking of writing a blog post about various aspects of Outlook Anywhere that people have been asking questions about. Somehow, I keep getting myself caught up in one thing or another, and have consequently delayed...

Published Fri, Jun 06 2008 9:57 AM by You Had Me At EHLO...

Filed under: Exchange 2007, Role: Client Access, Troubleshooting, Tips 'n Tricks, Documentation, Outlook

Troubleshooting Outlook RPC dialog boxes - revisited

It's been a while since we last blogged about this Outlook feature that most users feel is an error, the RPC Dialog Box. You might get a popup error that will say: Outlook is retrieving data from the Microsoft Exchange Server <Server name>....

Published Fri, May 05 2008 9:18 AM by You Had Me At EHLO...

Filed under: Exchange 2007, Troubleshooting, Tips 'n Tricks, Role: Mailbox, Outlook

Publish S/MIME certificates for external contacts to Active Directory for use with Exchange Server 2007

In the past, if you wished to use S/MIME for e-mail encryption with an external recipient, you would add the recipient to your Contacts folder. This was typically done by having the recipient send you a digitally signed item and then right click on the...

Published Wed, Apr 04 2008 12:19 PM by You Had Me At EHLO...

Filed under: Exchange 2007, Role: Client Access, Tips 'n Tricks, Security, Outlook Web Access, Outlook, Directory

Communicator and Exchange - Special considerations for deploying Communicator in an Exchange environment

The Office Communicator team has posted a very interesting post if you have Exchange and Communicator in your environment. If you have tried to figure out the possible impact on your network from Outlook and Communicator integration, this post is for...

Published Tue, Jan 01 2008 1:32 PM by You Had Me At EHLO...

Filed under: Tips 'n Tricks, Outlook, Community

Understanding multi-domain DL update and delegate issues after application of Exchange 2003 SP2 - Part 2

If you have been struggling with Delegate errors in multi-domain environments where you consistently get the below error when attempting to add a delegate for a user, you are now in luck as there is a hotfix for Outlook 2003 that will help alleviate some...

Published Thu, Jan 01 2008 10:52 AM by You Had Me At EHLO...

Filed under: Troubleshooting, Tips 'n Tricks, Outlook, Directory

Optimizing Outlook 2007 Cache Mode Performance for a Very Large Mailbox

My mailbox size is 7.4GB. I send/receive around 200 emails a day; so that 7.4GB of email goes back several years. I don't use too many rules so most of my email ends up in my Inbox (30k items). If you have read Exchange mailbox sizing guidance , you...

Published Mon, Dec 12 2007 10:45 AM by You Had Me At EHLO...

Filed under: Exchange 2007, Tips 'n Tricks, Role: Mailbox, Outlook

How do Exchange Server rules work?

You've been using Outlook for years now and you've probably established some delivery rules for yourself. Maybe mail from your manager is automatically routed to a subfolder of your inbox. If you're using Outlook 2003 or later, you've...

Published Mon, Dec 12 2007 10:03 AM by You Had Me At EHLO...