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When adding a new meeting request results inthis error "Resource has declined your meeting because it is recurring. You must book each meeting separately with this resource."
Continue reading: Resource has declined your meeting because it is recurringBy Diane Poremsky August 5, 2011
It’s easy to share the default folders in your Microsoft Exchange mailbox: just give your co-worker permission to the folder. They can view the contents using the File, Open, Other users folder command. Sharing subfolders requires a bit more effort as the subfolders are not accessible from the Open Other Users Folder dialog. Administrators can use
Continue reading: How to View Shared Subfolders in an Exchange MailboxBy Diane Poremsky April 10, 2012
When you move from one Exchange service to another and want to retain the current profile, you cannot remove the original Exchange account from your profile. The primary account cannot be removed unless it is the only account in the profile. You must remove all other Exchange accounts before removing the primary account. Logically, making
Continue reading: The primary account cannot be removed from Outlook 2010By Diane Poremsky September 22, 2011
An Office 365 user was trying to make Outlook use his vanity domain as the From address instead of the Office 365 default domain (onmicrosoft.com). This is not something that is controlled from Outlook, its set on the server. While you can have multiple addresses assigned to your mailbox (and receive mail sent to those
Continue reading: Changing the From Domain in Office 365By Diane Poremsky March 29, 2012
How to configure room calendars so you can share Exchange 2010 Free/Busy over the Internet. You can control the rooms or user's whose calendars are available and the amount of details that are shown.
Continue reading: Sharing Exchange 2010 Calendars with Outside UsersBy Diane Poremsky March 5, 2012
From the Exchange team blog: The Exchange support team relatively frequently receives cases where mobile devices using Exchange ActiveSync (EAS) protocol send too many requests to Exchange server resulting in a situation where server runs out of resources, effectively causing a ‘denial of service’ (DOS) attack. The worst outcome of such a situation is that
Continue reading: A script to troubleshoot issues with Exchange ActiveSyncBy Diane Poremsky August 2, 2011
How to show the sender’s e-mail address and other fields in a column in message list view Many Extended MAPI properties are added to messages when they are committed to Outlook message store or the Exchange mailbox but Outlook doesn’t have a built in way to expose the value. It’s possible to write a configuration form that exposes
Continue reading: Adding Extended MAPI Fields to OutlookBy Diane Poremsky February 23, 2012
The recently released Calendar Checking Tool for Outlook (CalCheck) is a command-line program to check Outlook calendars for problems. Note that this tool is for exchange server accounts only, it will not work with non-Exchange accounts such as IMAP or POP3. When you run CalCheck, it checks your general settings, such as permissions, free/busy publishing,
Continue reading: Calendar Checking Tool for Outlook (CalCheck)By Diane Poremsky February 10, 2012
Microsoft released the long-awaited PST Capture tool last week. This tool will help administrators search the network and discover pst files - then import them directly into users' primary mailboxes or archives. There are three parts to the capture tool (which requires Outlook 2010 64 bit): PST Capture Central Service: The Central Service maintains the
Continue reading: PST Capture Tool for Exchange Server and Office 365 MigrationsBy Diane Poremsky January 30, 2012
When the social connector is enabled in Microsoft Outlook and you have an Exchange mailbox, the social connector will sync changes in the GAL to contacts. It requires the user add contacts from the GAL to the local contact folder. (Many users save contacts so they can sync with phones or to have the contacts
Continue reading: Outlook’s Social Connector and Contacts Sync
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