RSSExchange Messaging Outlook Volume 13, Number 15
Today's Highlights:
Convert a Mailbox to a Resource Room
A reader asked: "Using Exchange 2007, is there a way to convert user mailboxes into room resources, so that existing calendar info isn't lost, which is what would happen if I removed the existing mailbox and created new mailboxes of the Room resource type?"
Sure, use the Exchange Management Shell to convert mailboxes to resources. The process removes the associated user account from the mailbox but leaves the mailbox intact.
In the management shell,
enter the following command
Set-Mailbox mailbox_alias
-Type Room
To verify the mailbox is a resource, you can
use the following command:
Get-Mailbox mailbox_alias |
select Name,IsResource
The Exchange Management console will show the resource type; Active Directory Users and Computers will show the account associated with the mailbox as disabled.
In addition to Room, valid mailbox types you can convert to or from are Regular, Equipment, and Shared.
Outlook 2007 Out of Office Failure
When your Exchange 2007/Outlook 2007 users get the following message "Your Out of Office settings cannot be displayed, because the server is currently unavailable. Try again later." and your Autodiscover service is configured correctly, verify that an external URL is configured.
Continued at Out of Office doesn't work after installing Exchange 2007 or 2010
Some Outlook 2007 users are confused after searching for appointments from the Day/Week/Month view. The search switches from the Day/Week/Month grid to a table view to display the search results and users don't know how to get back to the Day/Week/Month view they were using.
When you are finished looking at the search results, the search needs to be cleared by clicking the x in the right side of the search field. The search should also clear when you change folders and return to the calendar. In a few cases it does not-- those users will need to reapply the Day/Week/Month view using View, Current View and may need to reset the views by opening Outlook using the /cleanviews switch.
Outlook Quick Tip: Setting a Default Category
Do you want to apply one category to all new calendar events while reserving Quick Click category for a second category?
You can do this by publishing a custom form with the default category applied.
- Open a new appointment form and apply the category you want set as default.
- Go to the Office Orb menu, Editor options and enable the Developer tab
- Choose Publish as… enter a name for you form and click Ok.
- Close the form.
- Right click on the folder and choose properties
- Set the new form as your default for this folder.
New Outlook KB Articles
A hotfix is available for Outlook 2007 that
enables certain MAPI applications to create new
items in a .pst file after the PstDisableGrow
registry entry is configured
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=954268
How to implement a PST override handler to
bypass the PSTDisableGrow policy in Outlook 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=956070
Other Resources
Outlook
2007 Add-Ins: RulesAddin, TravelAgencyAddin, and
PrepareMeAddin
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb226710.aspx
The Outlook 2007 Sample Add-Ins are a
learning tool that will help you understand some
of the important new features in the Outlook 2007
object model. Each sample is available in a
version for Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office
Second Edition (VSTO 2005 SE) in addition to the
version based on the Outlook 2007 Sample: Visual
Studio 2005 Templates. They provide information
on Using the Rules object model, which allows you
to programmatically create or access most rules
supported by the Outlook Rules Wizard (Rules
sample), Implementing a form region for an
Outlook contact item (Travel Agency sample) and
Adding a custom task pane to an Outlook
AppointmentItem (Prepare Me sample)
