Exchange Messaging Outlook Volume 12, Number 8

Issue Date July 26 2007 « Previous Issue | Next Issue »

Today's highlights: ExTRA! ExTRA! Read all about it! Viewing the 'Replied to' Time Using Outlook Data in Other Applications Outlook 2007's Missing Week View Outlook 2007 Primary Interop Assembly Reference Regular features: New utilities Updated utilities Other Resources New Exchange Knowledge Base Articles New Outlook Knowledge Base Articles ExTRA! ExTRA! Read all about it! Earlier this year, Microsoft released an update to yet another tool designed to help the Exchange administrator maintain a fully functioning and reliable Exchange organization. The Exchange Troubleshooting Assistant (ExTRA) v1.1 complements the Exchange Best Practices Analyzer (ExBPA) to provide extensive information on an Exchange installation. Read complete article... Viewing the 'Replied to' Time Christopher wants to know how he can track the respond time for emails. He needs to keep track of the time the email was sent, and then the time it was replied to. "Currently the only way I can see the reply time is by opening the message and looking at the infobar. Do you know how I can do this? So it will show in the inbox categories, and then I can export this to excel to create a report?" Read complete article... Using Outlook Data in Other Applications Not only does Christopher need to view the replied to time, he also needs to use it in reports. While he could export to Excel or a CSV file format, the export won't include the custom fields he needs. That's not really a problem though. He just needs to create a custom view showing the fields he wants to use in his report and then select the records, copy and paste into any application that accepts paste. Read complete article... Outlook 2007's Missing Week View A surprisingly popular topic in the Microsoft newsgroups is the lack of a Week view in Outlook 2007's calendar. This is the view with 7 days shown in 2 columns and it seems users either used it all the time or never used it. Among the comments: "Is there a way to REMOVE the time grid on the left of the Outlook 2007 calendar?? I have just upgraded from Outlook 2002 and cannot seem to fit the same amount of information in the weekly view in the new 2007 format. I would rather just put a time in and have it appear EXACTLTY, instead of having it fit somewhere in the grid. I would rather have the 7 large squares to type stuff in (weekend being split), then waste my usable space with the time grid." "Let me add my voice to those who HATE the time grid. The two-week view option suggested here is feasible, but much worse than the Outlook 2003 view. I would love a "classic view" option in 2007 which would let me see, at least my calendar, the old way." "Can a fix be issued to remove the time grid since so many of us don't want it???" This view was removed when the calendar overlay feature was added, in part because of difficulties in making it work with the overlays. At this time there is not a "fix" for the week view. The best workaround is dragging the cursor over two weeks in a navigation calendar. This gives you a 2 week view with larger grids than the monthly calendars, but you can't use this method to show just one week. You could use the Calendar Printing Assistant to print to an electronic document format or publish as an XPS file using the Week layout, but it's not quite the same as having a Week view in Outlook. It's also not interactive. I'm not expecting a fix from Microsoft for this, but you can increase the chances if you let them know you want the Week view by filing a support incident. See http://support.microsoft.com/gp/vista_supoffnew for more information on the support policy, which includes unlimited free support for retail Office/Outlook 2007 for the first 90 days after activation. View a Two Week Calendar http://www.slipstick.com/calendar/2wk_cal.htm Calendar Printing Assistant http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/HA101687211033.aspx Outlook 2007 Primary Interop Assembly Reference The Outlook 2007 Primary Interop Assembly Reference is now available on MSDN. If your Visual Studio help options are set to either 'Try local first, then online' or 'Try online first, then local' and MSDN is one of your online help providers, pressing F1 on Outlook object model objects and members in Visual Studio 2005 or Visual Studio 'Orcas' will use the PIA reference. Outlook 2007 PIA Documentation Online http://blogs.msdn.com/rgregg/archive/2007/07/26/outlook-2007-pia-documentation-online.aspx Outlook 2007 Primary Interop Assembly Reference http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb187379.aspx
Other Resources	Office 2003 Service Pack 3 Administrative Template (ADM), OPAs, and Explain Text Update http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=BA8BC720-EDC2-479B-B115-5ABB70B3F490 Included are updated Group Policy Administrative Template files, OPA files, and an updated Microsoft Excel workbook that lists the Administrative Template policy settings and OPA settings. The following updates are included: Policy settings that provide the ability to block file format settings to prevent users from opening or saving specific file types and file formats in Microsoft Office Excel 2003, Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003, and Microsoft Office Word 2003. An updated Excel 2003 workbook (Office 2003 Group Policies.xls) that describes policy settings listed in the various Administrative Template and OPA files. It supports changes to the Office 2003 SP3 policy settings. This update replaces the previously available Office 2003 Service Pack 2 Administrative Template (ADM), OPAs, and Explain Text Update download. Outlook 2007 Issues for Developers http://outlookcode.com/article.aspx?id=59 This page contains information on potential issues to consider, especially if you're testing applications that were developed for earlier versions. Outlook 2007 Primary Interop Assembly Reference http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb187379.aspx The Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 Primary Interop Assembly (PIA) Reference provides help for developing managed applications for Microsoft Office Outlook 2007. It extends the Outlook 2007 Developer Reference from the COM environment to the managed environment and focuses on how to use the PIA. White Paper : OWA Security Issues Undetected by ISA Server http://www.messageware.com/ISAWhitePaper.htm A new white paper released by Messageware identifies often overlooked security risks for organizations running OWA, even with ISA Server installed. Learn about what OWA security issues are undetected by ISA, test your organization's environment for security vulnerabilities and learn how to add an additional layer of security to OWA to prevent unauthorized users from accessing email accounts.
New Exchange Knowledge Base Articles	A POP3 mail client may receive an error code, and event ID 1009 is logged on an Exchange 2007 mail server http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=932905 Appointments that are sent between different Exchange Server organizations may be incorrect by one hour when one of the organizations is in the Western Australia time zone http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=929895 Description of Update Rollup 3 for Exchange 2007 http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=935999 Error message when Outlook synchronizes an offline address book with Exchange 2007: "0x8004010F" http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=939765 Error message when you run the Test-ExchangeSearch cmdlet across domains in an Exchange 2007 environment: "The operation could not be performed because of a service" http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=936337 Error message when you try to access public folders in Exchange 2003: "Error ID number: c1030af3" or "HTTP/1.1 503 service unavailable" http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=938610 Error message when you try to reinstall Exchange 2007: "Could not find the default Administrative Group 'Exchange Administrative Group (FYDIBOHF23SPDLT)'" http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=937358 Event ID 1036 is logged on an Exchange 2007 server that is running the CAS role when mobile devices connect to the Exchange 2007 server to access mailboxes on an Exchange 2003 back-end server http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=937031 Microsoft does not support using ISAPI extensions or filters to modify Outlook Web Access credentials on a server that is running Exchange Server http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=938609 Public folder replication issues that occur after you install Exchange 2007 in an existing Exchange 2003 organization http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=939764 The outgoing message always displays the name of the sender even though the administrator configured the message to hide the name in Exchange Server 2007 http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=935412 The synchronization session of the mobile device fails, and you receive error code "0X85010015" when you try to synchronize a mobile device by using Exchange ActiveSync in Exchange Server 2007 http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=934402 Users who do not use Exchange Server experience delayed responses when they query free/busy data for users who were migrated to Exchange Server 2007 http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=928874
New Outlook Knowledge Base Articles	Description of the 2007 Office hotfix package: June 17, 2007 http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=936864 Description of the 2007 Office hotfix package: June 17, 2007 http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=938888 Description of the Outlook 2007 hotfix package: May 28, 2007 http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=937903 Description of the update rollup for Outlook 2007: June 17, 2007 http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=938893 Error message when you try to modify the Parental Control settings in a 2007 Office program on a Windows-Vista based computer: "The user account does not have permission to save your changes" http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=938492 Error message when you try to open an attachment in Outlook 2003: "'C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\<filename>' could not be found" http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=938200 How to turn off automatic spelling checking and automatic grammar checking in Office programs http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=937422 Information about the location of the registry entries for signature data files and for the vCard file in Outlook 2003 and in Outlook 2002 http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=938360 Outlook 2007 may close unexpectedly (crash) when you try to start Outlook 2007 under an existing profile http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=938941
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