Exchange Messaging Outlook Volume 13, Number 19

Remove the RSS Folder

Some people just don't like the RSS feature in Outlook. Fortunately you can disable the RSS capability using group policy. While group policy is considered by many to be a ‘corporate’ feature, anyone can change their local group policy, or simply edit the registry.

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Display OWA Contacts

A reader had this question about OWA: "Currently we're using Exchange 2003 for our mail server. We have a problem in OWA. Can OWA list all the contacts, like in Outlook? For example when you open the Global Address List, it’s empty. It's not easy to memorize the names and then click find when we want to send email. "

The GAL is searchable, but the addresses aren't displayed by default. You don't need to remember full names though - you can use partial names or even just a space in the search field.

Reset OWA's Folder Names

A reader wanted to know how to change the folder names to a different language when they only use OWA, not Outlook.

The easiest way is to use Outlook and the /resetfoldernames switch. Unfortunately, all you can do from OWA is change the browser's default language setting and rename the folders yourself. You'll also need to make sure you empty the browser cache so the context menus update.

What is Type Down?

Last week I mentioned that Outlook's "type down" feature works best when all contacts use the same File As order. A couple of people wanted to know more about it.

Type down is a cool feature. When you are in any view that doesn't use in-cell editing or the folder list, you can type a letter to jump to the items beginning with that letter. In Contact's card view, it means you don't need to use the Index and a mouse, you can type any letter to jump ahead. Note that it doesn't work with all group or sort by options.