Exchange Messaging Outlook
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Greetings! Welcome to Vol. 10, No. 24, Mar 16
2006, of Exchange
Messaging Outlook, a biweekly newsletter about Microsoft Exchange
and Microsoft Outlook.
Today's highlights:
Regular features:
In-place upgrades for Exchange 12?Following comments in the last issue of EMO, John asks: Microsoft has said they are "investing heavily in consolidating and improving migration tools" to help insure that moving to Exchange 12 will be a smooth transition and we'll learn how smooth as we get closer to the release date, once the code is set and the tools ready for testing. I don't expect they'll have anything, other than exmerge, to help in your situation, but it's really too soon to know for sure. If you are purchasing 64 bit hardware now but installing 32 bit operating system and Exchange 2003 an in-place upgrade is unlikely. One option is to hang on to the old server hardware, so that when you're ready to upgrade to 64 bit software you can move the mailboxes to the older server. Then after installing 64 bit versions of Windows and Exchange, you'll move the mailboxes back to the new server. Anyone using 32 bit hardware will need to purchase 64 bit hardware and can either export the mailboxes or add the new server to the domain and move the mailboxes and replicate public folders then remove the 32 bit server from the network. For those still using Exchange 5.5, migrating to Exchange 12 will definitely be a 2-step process, going first to Exchange 2003 then to Exchange 12. Note: Exmerge may be replaced in Exchange 12 by a Monad script. Do you really want to reply to all?A reader asks: Of course there is. You can use VBA or purchase a add-in if you aren't into programming. Eric Legualt explained how to do this using VBA in "Getting a Handle on Your E-mails with VBA". While Eric's code sample is free for anyone who wants to work with VBA, it only detects the Reply to all function of an opened message, but not if you read messages in the reading pane. If you're interested in detecting other message actions, including opening or closing messages, Eric includes simple code samples to get you started. The commercial add-ins that will detect reply to all actions include the following: Sperry software's Reply-to-all monitor You Perform Pocketknife peek - "Reply to some" feature
Additional tools may be found at More on Outlook 2007's Business CardsThe new Business card layout for Outlook contacts is definitely one of the coolest new features as well as one of the most noticeable and I'll share a little more information about this feature. By default, the Business card layout uses the contact picture, if one exists, otherwise it uses a simple border image. You can replace the contact picture or border image on any business card with another image or logo and adjust it's size and position on the card. This allows you to create business cards for your contacts using their corporate logos or a background picture. This not only makes the contacts look more professional, it also makes it easier to find them by browsing. Yes, search is faster when you need to locate a contact, but we all know many people are in the habit of browsing to find contacts and the business card view will make it easier. Did you ever wish you could use an image of your business card in your email signature? The business card feature makes it simple. Create a business card for your own contact that resembles your physical business cards and configure it for use as your signature and it'll be added to your signature as an image with your vcard attached. If you include a picture of yourself in the contact picture field, they are not included in the vcards attached to signatures, but the business card is visible when the recipient uses Outlook 2007. If you want your Outlook 2003/2007 recipients to have a contact with your contact picture on it, you'll need to forward the contact to them (Send > as Outlook contact in Outlook 2007). |
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New Utilities |
OUTLOOK CALENDAR SYNCHRONIZATION OUTLOOK MAIL LISTENER OUTLOOK MAIL MONITOR OWA SUITE POCKET INFORMANT PSTCOMPRESS |
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Other Resources |
EXCHANGE 12 PREVIEW WEBCASTS MICROSOFT APPLICATION ANALYZER 2006 FOR LOTUS DOMINO MSDN AND TECHNET SUBSCRIBERS CAN PREVIEW EXCHANGE 12 BETA |
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New Exchange Knowledge Base Articles |
After you enable Always-Up-To-Date notifications in Exchange Server
2003 SP2, asynchronous event sinks in the mailbox store do not run When you back up a large database in Exchange 2000 Enterprise Server, the backup
operation fails Synchronization errors may occur after you use the Exchange Profile Update tool
(Exprofre.exe) to migrate a user profile in Exchange Server Error message when you install Exchange 2000 Server SP3: "Setup failed while
Creating IIS Metabase objects for Base DAV protocol (error
0x8009000F: Object already exists.)" E-mail client computers stop responding, and the Store.exe process uses up to 100 percent of the CPU resources on a server that is running Exchange Server 2003 http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;914800 Users cannot open certain e-mail messages, and event ID 12800 is logged in the
Application event log in Exchange Server 2003 Error message when you try to use the put_ProxyAddresses method on the
IMailRecipient interface in Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server:
"E_UNEXPECTED (0x8000FFFF)" An event is logged every 15 minutes on the computer that is running the Exchange
Management Pack for Management Operations Manager 2005 |
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New Outlook Knowledge Base Articles |
Description of the Outlook 2003 post-Service Pack 2 hotfix package for the
Japanese version of Outlook 2003: January 18, 2006 How to incorporate Indiana's time zone change into Outlook Information about two new named property definitions that can control how a
message is processed by Office Outlook 2003 when users reply to the message Error message when you try to repair, reinstall, or add a component to an Office
2003 program and you use a Local Installation Source:
"Installation Error: File Not Found" The country code is not automatically added when you add a telephone number to a
contact in Outlook 2003 |
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