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Cannot Expand Outlook Folders: Not Enough Memory

This error affects Exchange server users with a large number of folders in their profile, either in their mailbox, public folders, or SharePoint lists. In most cases, you won't have a problem until you exceed approximately 1,000 folders, or a gigabyte of space is used. Outlook works fine for a little bit (5-10 minutes) before  

Can you recover messages sent while 'Save sent messages' was disabled?

An administrator has a problem. They inadvertently set a group policy that disabled the option to saved sent items and would like to recover copies the messages that were sent during the short period of time the policy was in effect. Unfortunately, its not possible to recover the sent items from Exchange server unless journaling  

Error Opening Outlook and Control Panel's Mail Applet

Outlook 2013 Users whose Mail applet stopped working in June 2016, see Outlook 2013: Control Panel Mail Won't Open . We're seeing reports that Outlook won't open, returning a (basically useless!) error message that Outlook won't open. Attempting to open the Mail applet in the Control panel results in an error message that Outlook is  

Could not complete the operation. One or more parameter values are not valid.

When you receive this error message: Could not complete the operation. One or more parameter values are not valid. while addressing or sending an email message, meeting request, or assigning a task, or saving a new contact, your auto-complete list may be corrupt. Some users also report getting this error when they save an appointment  

Outlook won't Connect to Outgoing Server

When Outlook won't connect to the outgoing server, it's usually because the firewall is blocking Outlook. This can happen with any firewall and seems to be most common after an update is installed. This is often because the Firewall is checking the Outlook version, not just for Outlook.exe. Task 'alias@domain.com - Receiving' reported error (0x80042108)  

Quick Access Toolbar Customizations won't Save

When you use a roaming profile and the Quick Access Toolbar isn't being saved when you log out, Group policy isn't configured to allow all user customizations to roam. To enable the roaming of the QAT customizations, you need to add the following value to your registry: Key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\14.0\Common\Toolbars Value: CustomUIRoaming Type: DWORD Data: 1  

Blackberry Desktop and Outlook Sync Failure

How to repair Blackberry and Outlook 2010 sync capability.

Icon is not correct on the Junk Mail Folder

The red crossed circle has disappeared from the Junk Mail folder. I tried starting Outlook with the folder reset switch, but no luck. The icon is still the standard folder icon. As long as the Empty folder commands work, it's not broken, but to restore the junk folder icon, you'll need to make a new  

Error: Serious error while processing CREATE (MsLimitNumFolders (74/76))

You receive this error message when you attempt to create new folders in your IMAP mailbox: "Cannot create the folder. The server responded: Serious error while processing CREATE (MsLimitNumFolders (74/76))"

3 Ways to Run PST Recovery (and a Better Alternative)

Why do organizations need to run a PST recovery? Is it because users love to save so much email that their PST files exceed all reasonable storage limits and then blow up – putting hundreds or thousands of business critical emails at risk? Or is it because they try to store these enormous PSTs on  

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