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Greetings! Welcome to Vol. 5, No. 16, of Exchange Messaging
Outlook, a biweekly newsletter about Microsoft Exchange and
Microsoft Outlook.
Today's highlights:
- Distributing company holidays
- Offline folder tips
- Address auto-resolution revisited
Regular features:
- New utilities
- Other new resources
Distributing company holidays
If you're looking for a way to put the company holidays for 2001
on everyone's calendar, we have the perfect form for you! At
Transmit Holidays,
you can download a free custom Outlook message form that reads
appointment details from any calendar folder and embeds key data in
a message you can send to everyone in the company. When users open
the message, they'll be able to click one button to have Outlook
place all the appointments in their own calendar folder.
This form was developed over the past couple of years with input
from many Exchange administrators. However, it does not require
Exchange Server and requires only that users have VBScript 2.0 or
later. If you want to send it outside an Exchange Server
organization, you'll need to follow the rules for sending forms that
we've collected at
Using Outlook custom forms over the Internet - Not!.
Offline folder tips
For Exchange Server users who sometimes work away from the
office, create any new mailbox folders you need when working
offline. That way, they'll automatically be configured for use both
offline and online.
If you work in an Exchange Server environment and don't want
messages to be delivered immediately after you send them, set up
offline folders and start Outlook in "work offline" mode. Messages
you send will stay in the Outbox folder until you're ready to send
them using Tools | Synchronize. If you use this method, you
might want to have a separate notification tool looking at your
mailbox via POP so that you know when you get new messages. See
Mail Notification Tools
for suggested add-ins.
Address auto-resolution revisited
I wrote in EMO Vol. 5, No. 12
about how Outlook automatically resolves addresses, rather than
automatically completing them as Outlook Express does. For those of
you using Exchange Server, here's some additional information on how
multiple address lists, including the GAL, affect the resolution
process.
Read complete article... Address Auto-Resolution vs. Auto-Complete
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