Exchange Messaging Outlook
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Greetings! Welcome to Vol. 11, No. 7, of Exchange Messaging Outlook,
a biweekly newsletter about Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft
Outlook.
Today's highlights:
Regular features:
Outlook 2007 Feature of the Week: To-Do BarOne of the most noticeable new features in Outlook 2007 is the To-Do
Bar. This collapsible pane on the right side of the Outlook
interface aims to replace Outlook Today as the central location to
view your daily schedule and tasks, displaying navigation calendars,
upcoming appointments and tasks in every folder. While the
appointments shown are only from your default calendar, the task
list contains those that you created in any task folder as well as
items in any folder that are flagged for reminders.
The To-Do Bar is visible in every Outlook folder, not just in the Calendar folder, and can be closed, minimized or resized as needed. When you click on the double arrows (>>) to minimize the pane to a single toolbar, the next appointment and task are displayed as buttons. Click anywhere on the minimized bar to expand the To-do pane temporarily to view or open items in the list or click the double arrows again to pin it open. Clicking on a day, or days, in the calendar opens the calendar folder for the selected dates while clicking on a task or appointment opens the item. Right clicking on an appointment or task allows you to print, forward, categories or delete the item. Outlook 2007 gives you some control over what is shown in the To-Do bar - right click in any open area of the bar to display the to-do bar context menu. You can show or hide the Date Navigator, Appointments, or Task list. Choose Options to set the number of calendars or appointments you'll see in your To-do bar. Change the view used on the Tasks section by clicking on the field names and choosing a different view or customizing the current one to filter out tasks. As with Outlook 2003, when you are in a calendar folder and have either turned off the navigation calendars or closed the right hand pane, the navigation calendar displays on the left, above the list of calendar folders. Using Age Limits on Public FoldersIf you are using a public folder to collect automated messages or
spam you'll probably want to delete the contents every few days.
While you can open the folder, use Ctrl+A to select all items and
press Del, you can also configure Exchange to delete the messages
based on their age.
You have two choices, you can set age limits on the entire public folder store or configure it on a per folder basis. Note that age limits apply to all public folders, included shared contacts. You'll need to override the age limit on any folder containing items you don't want deleted. You'll access the public folder age limits from the Exchange System Manager. The age limit setting is as a property of the Public folder store, located under Administrative Groups, your administrative group, Servers, your server name, your storage group. To set Age Limits for the whole public folder store:
By default, all public folders use the default public folder age
limit, so the limit you entered will apply to every public folder in
the store.
Exchange 2007 Beta 2 Coming SoonBeta 2 of Exchange 2007 will be released to the public at the end of
July. This build is expected to be feature complete, including a
usable interface, unlike beta 1.
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New Utilities |
DUPLICATE KILLER |
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Updated Utilities |
ADOLSIGN http://www.itefix.no/adolsign/ Adolsign is a tool to create AD-aware Outlook signature files. Adolsign can scan signature templates in html, rtf or plain text format, replace scan codes with equivalent fields in Active Directory and places processed templates into Outlook's signature directory. It now offers vCard support and multiple signatures via domain group membership specified in the configuration file. It is a command line based utility, making deployment easy via login/startup scripts or software distribution systems. Version 1.5 SHAREO FOR OUTLOOK http://shareo.4team.biz/ Share your Outlook calendar, contacts, journal, mail, tasks and notes folders with other Outlook users, without a server, with this utility. Share Inbox and Sent Items folders and exclude/include(mark as "private") any e-mail message from the sharing list. Version 2.31.0149 |
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New Exchange Knowledge Base Articles |
Available support for applications that use the WebDAV protocol to access
Exchange 2000 Server or Exchange Server 2003 http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=920134 Error message when you use Outlook Web Access or when you try to access an ASP Web page on an Exchange Server 2003 server that is running Windows Server 2003: "The page cannot be displayed" http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=919090 The performance of the server deteriorates over time after you enable Sender ID Filtering in Exchange Server 2003 Service Pack 2 http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=918283 MS06-029: Vulnerability in Microsoft Exchange Server could allow script injection when Exchange Server runs Outlook Web Access http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=912442 Exchange Protocol Security authentication fails after you install Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2 on a server that has multiple SMTP virtual servers in Exchange Server 2003 http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=914137 Outgoing e-mail to other internal Exchange servers is queued, and you receive an error message in Exchange Server 2003 http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=919091 Users who have mailboxes on a server that is running Exchange 2000 Server receive an NDR message when they try to send e-mail to Exchange Server 5.5 users http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=919087 Exchange services do not start, and event IDs 2114 and 2112 are logged in the Application log in Exchange Server 2003 or in Exchange 2000 Server http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=919089 Error message when Outlook 2003 users connect to Exchange Server 2003 by using RPC over HTTP: "Server Unavailable" http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=919092 |
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New Outlook Knowledge Base Articles |
Description of Outlook 2003 post-Service Pack 2 hotfix package: May 3, 2006 http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=917337 Error message when you check the spelling of text that is in an e-mail message in Outlook 2003 by using either the Dutch or Spanish dictionary: "Speller does not support this language" http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=919038 Description of the Outlook 2003 post-Service Pack 2 hotfix package: June 1, 2006 http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=919037 |
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