Exchange Messaging Outlook
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Greetings! Welcome to Vol. 11, No. 16, of Exchange Messaging Outlook, a biweekly newsletter about Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft Outlook.
Today's highlights:
Regular features:
Exchange 2007 Feature of the Week: Exchange Management ShellThe management shell is a command line interface based on Windows
PowerShell technology, which will make it much easier for
administrators to script many jobs. As all experienced
administrators know, command shells can be much faster to use than a
graphical interface, but knowing how many smaller sites have less
experienced administrators (often the most computer savvy employee,
not an administrator by training), there will be a learning curve
for many administrators.
To help familiarize administrators with the cmdlets, all commands accessible from the Exchange Management Console interface display the script used to complete the task. You can copy and paste these cmdlets into notepad to save for later use. There are also script samples in Help and at various Internet sites, so you won't actually have to learn how to write your own. Once you get the hang of it, it is faster, especially for bulk jobs, than using the management console interface. For more information about the Exchange Management shell: Introduction to the Exchange Management Shell http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=1DC0F61B-D30F-44A2-882E-12DDD4EE09D2&displaylang=en Exchange Management Shell Quick Reference http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=01A441B9-4099-4C0F-B8E0-0831D4A2CA86&displaylang=en You had me at EHLO blog: Recipient Management cmdlets introduction http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2006/08/28/428777.aspx Outlook 2007 Feature of the Week: Outlook Mobile ServiceThe Outlook Mobile Service enables you to send text and picture
messages between Outlook 2007 and any mobile phone. You can use it
to forward Outlook e-mail, contacts, appointments, and tasks to
yourself or other people as text messages or configure Outlook 2007
to automatically send e-mail, reminders, and your daily calendar to
your mobile phone as text messages.
At this time, it's available only to customers of Alltel, Nextel, Sprint PCS, and Verizon Wireless in the United States. Customers of these cellular providers will use SMS Link for Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 for mobile services. A wizard steps you through the configuration and setup of the service, including adding the account to Outlook. After installing the service, you will send text messages from Outlook by selecting the New, Text Message link. This opens a message form with options such as maximum text length and a small preview window so you can see what the recipient will see. The SMS link service is free; however, recipients will be charged normal text or picture message fees by their cellular provider when you send messages or reminders to a phone. For more information about the SMS Link for Microsoft Office Outlook 2007, see http://messaging.office.microsoft.com/Main.aspx?lc=1033 Outlook Mobile Service SMS link articles: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/CH101316361033.aspx Additional countries and cellular providers are expected to be added over time. Junk Email Reporting ToolFrom the time Outlook 2003 went into beta and offered decent Junk
email filtering, users have asked for the ability to report their
junk email. Microsoft repeatedly said they get plenty of junk email
on which to build their filters from a group of Hotmail accounts.
The good news is that users now have what they asked for: Microsoft recently released an add-in for Outlook 2003 and 2007 that allows users to report spam to Exchange Hosted Filtering for analysis. The bad news is that only accounts that use Exchange Hosted Filtering will benefit, at least at this time. Whether spam reported using the Junk email reporting tool makes it into a future Outlook junk email filter or Exchange Server's IMF remains to be seen. Exchange Hosted Filtering users will see an immediate effect from the reporting: submissions are processed daily and updates become effective the next day. Microsoft Junk E-mail Reporting Tool version 1.0 for Microsoft Office Outlook http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=53541292-ce94-4c5b-9127-b7d56f11b619&DisplayLang=en Note: This add-in works only with Outlook 2003 and Outlook 2007, installed on Windows Vista or Windows XP. For more information about Exchange Hosted Filtering, visit http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/services/filtering.mspx Office 2007 Training MaterialsMicrosoft Learning released training materials for Office 2007
applications at the Microsoft Office Learning Portal. They offer
training materials for home and small office users, administrators,
and developers. For a limited time there are free e-Learning courses
available, along with special offers for classroom training. Free
e-Reference books from Microsoft Press are available for download.
http://www.microsoft.com/learning/office2007/default.mspx Training the Spam filterWhile we're on the subject of junk email and user requests, another
frequently requested feature is the ability to train Outlook's Junk
email filter, so it works better on the specific spam you get.
Microsoft has always maintained that less user interaction with the
filter is better and I have to agree with them on this. Many users
are not disciplined enough to keep training the filter and the time
spent on training filters is time away from work or more enjoyable
activities. It's also a lot of duplicated effort that benefits only
the individual. Server-side filtering is always the best way to deal
with the majority of spam.
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AD BULK CONTACTS http://www.dovestones.com/products/Active_Directory_Contacts_Import.asp Active Directory Contact Import Tool. Import, modify or delete Active Directory Contacts in bulk, mail-enable contacts on import. Can be automated to keep Contacts up to date. ATTACHMENT SAVE http://www.sperrysoftware.com/Outlook/Attachment-Save.asp Attachment Save now saves the emails as well as the attachments to your Windows folders and it automatically re-attaches the attachment at the moment you compose the reply or forward, rather than when the Send button is clicked. It accepts UNC paths, has a multi-folder Undo, and it allows you to execute a program after the attachment has been saved to disk. Free upgrade to existing Attachment Save owners. Version 4.0. CLEARCONTEXT INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM http://www.clearcontext.com ClearContext Information Management System Professional is an Outlook add-in to help users more efficiently manage their workday. IMS Pro automatically prioritizes email based on importance and includes additional functionality to create, process, and organize emails, tasks and appointments. IMS pro is free to try for 30 days and also allows users to delegate email to others or defer emails so they disappear from the inbox and reappear at a later date. A completely free version of the add-in, providing email prioritization and organization functionality, is also available. Version 3.0 |
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THE 2007 MICROSOFT OFFICE SYSTEM LEARNING PORTAL http://www.microsoft.com/learning/office2007/default.mspx Training materials from Microsoft Learning are now available for the Microsoft Office 2007 system. For a limited time, you can take free E-Learning courses, find special offers for classroom training, and download free E-Reference books from Microsoft Press. |
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New Exchange Knowledge Base Articles |
An Entourage user may receive a meeting request that does not
correspond to the meeting time that is specified by the meeting
organizer in an Exchange Server 2003 organization http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=925376 The error message "HTTP 404 error - Resource not found" is garbled when you access Outlook Web Access in Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 and you are using a DBCS language http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=923411 Event ID 9325 is logged when Exchange 2003 generates an offline address list http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=926206 Error message when you try to mount the public folder store in Exchange 2000: "An internal processing error has occurred. ID no: c1041724" http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=926207 Outlook Web Access stops responding when you try to connect to a front-end server that is running Exchange 2000 Server http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=922718 The LegacyExchangeDN attribute for two user accounts may be the same in Exchange Server 2003 SP2 http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=925397 The Inetinfo.exe process stops responding when you enable the Envelope Journaling feature in an organization that is running Exchange Server 2003 SP2 http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=926329 Many transaction log files are generated in a short time on an Exchange 2003 Service Pack 2 server http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=925392 The subject and body of an NDR message are displayed incorrectly when you receive an NDR message by using the German version of Exchange Server 2003 http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=923988 The "Microsoft Exchange Server" check box is missing from the Backup tab of the Windows Backup program on a computer that is running Exchange 2000 Server http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=926208 You cannot copy or move a message that is formatted in Unicode to the Inbox in an organization that is running Exchange Server 2003 SP1 http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=922891 FIX: An NDR message that has an embedded TNEF attachment cannot be delivered on a server that is running Exchange Server 2003 http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=920845 Event ID 9519 that includes error 0xfffffa84 is logged when you try to mount a database after you use the Eseutil and Isinteg utilities to recover the database in Exchange 2003 http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=924627 The Compose Message form stops responding after you install Internet Explorer 7.0 and the S/MIME control on an Outlook Web Access client in Exchange Server 2003 http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=924334 You cannot connect to a mailbox store by using ExMerge after you restore the mailbox store to a recovery server in Exchange 2000 http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=924730 Error message when you use Outlook Web Access to open a meeting request that was opened on an IMAP4 client in Exchange Server 2003 SP2: "Page not found" http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=923496 Error message when you use Outlook Web Access in Exchange 2000 Server: "The remote procedure call failed" or "The handle is invalid" http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=926085 |
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New Outlook Knowledge Base Articles |
Description of the Outlook 2003 post-Service Pack 2 hotfix package:
October 19, 2006 http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=927209 Description of the Outlook 2003 post-Service Pack 2 hotfix package: October 11, 2006 http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=926522 Description of the Outlook 2003 post-Service Pack 2 hotfix package: October 13, 2006 http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=926991 The size of a digitally signed and encrypted e-mail message grows when you create, forward, or reply to a digitally signed and encrypted e-mail message in Outlook or in Outlook Express http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=927092 Description of the Outlook 2003 post-Service Pack 2 hotfix package: October 11, 2006 http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=926451 A removed delegate reappears after you restart Outlook http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=925831 Error message when you click the Delegates tab in the Options dialog box in Outlook 2003 with Exchange Server 2003: "The delegates page is not available" http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=926205 Customer contact information is missing from the customer record in Small Business Accounting http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=926077 |
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