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The primary account cannot be removed from Outlook 2010
When you move from one Exchange service to another and want to retain the current profile, you cannot remove the original Exchange account from your profile. The primary account cannot be removed unless it is the only account in the profile. You must remove all other Exchange accounts before removing the primary account. Logically, making
Continue reading: The primary account cannot be removed from Outlook 2010Exchange Traffic and Message Size Stats
An administrator wanted to known how to get monthly stats for the internal email traffic and message sizes. You can use a PowerShell to get traffic and message stats, and you don't even have to write your own script. There is a ready-to-use PowerShell script at Exchange 2007/2010 Email stats. This was written to get
Continue reading: Exchange Traffic and Message Size StatsSharing Exchange 2010 Calendars with Outside Users
How to configure room calendars so you can share Exchange 2010 Free/Busy over the Internet. You can control the rooms or user's whose calendars are available and the amount of details that are shown.
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An administrator has a user who connects to Exchange 2007 using an IMAP account so that he can keep messages on multiple devices and he can work offline from multiple locations/devices as needed. The user is having problems subscribing to more folders and receives an error: "Failed to subscribe the folder. The server responded: ‘Server
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Set a Default Microsoft Exchange Public Folder View
Ok, so you've created a custom view for your public folder, and you want everyone to use the same view. How can you do this? Easy... once you have the view created, using This folder, visible to everyone option: Right click on the public folder Choose Properties, Select the Administration tab. All of the views
Continue reading: Set a Default Microsoft Exchange Public Folder ViewHow Email Usage Reports Reduce Abuse
Email usage reports are a critical component of a company’s messaging infrastructure, and yet a recent survey by Osterman Research found that most organizations do not filter outbound email and only about one third have any kind of email usage reporting solution in place. Implementing acceptable usage policies, business etiquette training, and publishing standards, only
Continue reading: How Email Usage Reports Reduce AbuseExchange 2010 SP2
As announced over the summer, Microsoft was targeting an end-of-year release for Exchange Server 2010 SP2. True to their word, Exchange 2010 SP2 was released earlier this week. As with all updates and service packs, previously released update rollups are included in SP2. As expected, new features include a basic text-based mini-OWA, suitable for low
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Calendar Checking Tool for Outlook (CalCheck)
The recently released Calendar Checking Tool for Outlook (CalCheck) is a command-line program to check Outlook calendars for problems. Note that this tool is for exchange server accounts only, it will not work with non-Exchange accounts such as IMAP or POP3. When you run CalCheck, it checks your general settings, such as permissions, free/busy publishing,
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An administrator asked: When we add any new meeting request we get this error "Resource has declined your meeting because it is recurring. You must book each meeting separately with this resource." Is the resource mailbox configured to decline recurring meetings? You can check this using Outlook or with the Get-MailboxCalendarSettings cmdlet: Specifically, check the
Continue reading: Get-MailboxCalendarSettingsOutlook’s Social Connector and Contacts Sync
When the social connector is enabled in Microsoft Outlook and you have an Exchange mailbox, the social connector will sync changes in the GAL to contacts. It requires the user add contacts from the GAL to the local contact folder. (Many users save contacts so they can sync with phones or to have the contacts
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