Exchange Messaging Outlook
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Greetings! Welcome to Vol. 11, No. 2, of Exchange
Messaging Outlook, a biweekly newsletter about Microsoft Exchange
and Microsoft Outlook.
Today's highlights:
Regular features:
Outlook 2007 Feature of the Week: iCalendarsOne of the most common Outlook calendaring requests is the ability to share your work calendar with your Outlook at home or other users. Currently the best way to do this is by exporting the appointments and importing them at home. It's clumsy but it works about as good as any other method. Outlook 2007 makes it easier: it allows you save your entire calendar, or specific periods, then give the file to another Outlook 2007 user to import into their Outlook. Several other popular calendars support iCalendars, so you can easily import your calendar in other programs. When you import iCalendar files, a subfolder under your main calendar is created for the new items and you'll use the calendar overlay to see these appointments mixed with your own appointments. To save your calendar as an iCalendar, open the Calendar and choose the File, Save as menu or from any appointment's File, Save as menu. Your options include choosing specific days, periods (today, this week, this month etc) or the entire calendar, and exporting only your working hours. You can also limit the amount of detail that's included in the appointments: only free/busy availability (out of office, busy, tentative), limited details, or full details. You also have the option of including private appointments or attachments. Choose the entire calendar with full details and attachments for a quick backup of your calendar. It all sounds great (and works great too), but there must be a drawback, right? Yes, there sure is. These icals will only work with Outlook 2007 and other programs that support icals, including Apple, Novell, Mozilla, and Works calendar applications. They won't work with older versions of Outlook; you'll need to save individual appointments or export them to a *.pst or CSV file and import if you want to share your calendar with people who use the older versions of Outlook. Along with the ability to export your entire calendar as a single ics file, you can publish your calendar to Office Online and share it with others. This is reminiscent of the free/busy service Microsoft offered with earlier versions of Outlook which was discontinued due to lack of use. Hopefully published calendars will get enough use and remain free. At this time you can only publish to Office Online, you'll need to save the calendar as an *.ics if you want to share the calendar but not use Office Online. Save as a web page is still supported for those times when publishing an ical won't work. There are many public iCalendars you can use with Outlook 2007, including sports team schedules, TV schedules, holidays, moon phases and tides. These subscription calendars are created in an Internet Calendar *.pst file and are updated when the author updates the calendar. If you have Outlook 2007 beta and would like to test subscription iCalendars, try the free iCalendars at iCalShare (http://www.icalshare.com/). Is the network popup getting you down?Most user find the popup messages about Exchange server messages, network warnings & network connectivity is annoying after awhile, especially on busy networks where there are frequent connectivity problems. While each user can disable the alerts on their own, you can disable the alerts for all users using a group policy or ADM file. It's as simple as deploying a logon script that changes three registry values found under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Outlook\Display Types\Balloons Change these values to 0: By deploying these settings in an ADM file, with the default off rather than on, users can change the setting, if they prefer to see the warnings. Beware of MS06-015There are a number of reports surfacing that one of this week's security updates causes problems using the File, Open and File, Save dialogs in Office applications. Opening the files by double clicking works, only the Open and Save explorers are affected. If this happens to you after installing the updates, uninstalling KB 908531 appears to correct the problem. MS06-015: Vulnerability in Windows Explorer Could Lead to Remote
Code Execution
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New Utilities |
RETROACTIVE SKYLOOK |
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Updated Utilities |
EXCHANGE GROUPCALENDAR GROUPCAL |
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Other Resources |
FREE EBOOK: TIPS AND TRICKS GUIDE ON SECURE MESSAGING OFFICE 2003 SERVICE PACK 2 ADMINISTRATIVE TEMPLATE (ADM), OPAS, AND
EXPLAIN TEXT UPDATE |
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New Exchange Knowledge Base Articles |
A new MAPI interface is available to let you retrieve mailbox tables on a
per-store basis in Exchange Server 2003 Synchronization times out and error "DEV_10" or "CONMGR_34" occurs on a
Pocket PC device when you try to synchronize with Exchange Server 2003 E-mail messages do not contain the X-header information when you use the
message journaling feature to forward the messages outside the Exchange
Server 2003 domain Exchange Server 2003 Service Pack 2 stops responding to client requests when
multiple users try to modify a single shared calendar at the same time The Information Store service stops responding when you use a CDO 1.21-based
program that uses the SetLocaleIDs method to set the code page of a MAPI session
in Exchange Server 2003 SP2 You may receive an NDR when you send an e-mail message to an external X400
address through a Defense Messaging System gateway server in Exchange Server
2003 SP2 A meeting request acceptance message from a Lotus Notes user generates an
NDR, and the acceptance message is stuck in the local delivery queue in Exchange
Server 2003 You receive an error message when you try to perform any editing tasks, or
you must click to enable the compose frame in Outlook Web Access Error message when you try to synchronize a mobile device with Exchange
Server 2003: "HTTP_403" How to troubleshoot the issue when event 9986 is not logged in MOM when you
monitor Exchange Server 2003 or Exchange 2000 Server Error message in Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005: "OWA logon failed" How to troubleshoot the issue when event 9986 is not logged in MOM when you
monitor Exchange Server 2003 or Exchange 2000 Server All recurring meetings are removed from Exchange Server 2003 when you change
a single instance of a recurring meeting that uses the iCal form code Error message in Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005: "OWA logon failed" |
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New Outlook Knowledge Base Articles |
Description of the Outlook 2003 Junk E-Mail Filter update: April 2006 Description of Outlook 2003 post-Service Pack 2 hotfix package: March 22,
2006 The value None is displayed for the date and for the time in the Modified box
when you use the Advanced Find feature in Outlook 2003 The Outlook window closes, but the application continues to run when you try
to exit Outlook Error message in Outlook 2003 or in Outlook 2002: "This information service
has not been configured" A signature does not retain the font or the color that you specified in
Outlook Description of the Outlook 2003 post-Service Pack 2 hotfix package for the
Japanese version of Outlook 2003: March 14, 2006 |
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