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Basic troubleshooting - Outlook
Like with any other applications that are intensely used, Outlook can sometimes cause issues and return error messages. No matter what the behaviour is, here are a few basic troubleshooting hints:1....
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Set autoreply rule in Outlook
Let’s assume you have a shared mailbox in Outlook on which you receive external emails. You want to set up an automated reply (autoreply) so that all the senders receive certain information. For...
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Error message when opening attachments in Outlook - "Can't create file..."
You just received that report that you get every week, you need to open it and complete that presentation for this morning, so you double-click the attachment and... the file can’t be opened. Outlook...
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Configure Outlook Anywhere settings for all users via Group Policy
Let’s say you have a lot of users that need to use Outlook and connect to the company mail while they are outside your company’s network. With Outlook 2007, you can use Outlook Anywhere, but how do you...
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Free/Busy and Calendar Permissions in Outlook 2007 running against Exchange...
Since the Calendar is a special folder causing a lot of trouble, I thought it might be useful to talk about assigning permissions and the changes you should expect to see in Outlook 2007 running...
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Configuring how contacts are displayed in Outlook
Some may think that the default format of the user/contact template in Outlook is not the most suitable for their needs. The good news is that this appearance can be changed. Let’s start with making...
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Retention policies in Outlook/ How are these working along with Auto...
How AutoArchive works in Outlook Outlook mailboxes grow as users create and receive items. To keep mailboxes manageable, users need another place to store - or archive - older items that are important...
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Deploying Junk E-mail Safe Senders lists in Outlook
We are all the time confronted with spam and junk emails and most of us appreciate the fact that “those” emails go into a special folder – the Junk E-mail folder. I will not go into explaining what...
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Information on AutoComplete feature in Outlook
AutoComplete feature in Outlook and how it works: The nickname cache feature makes it quicker to resolve a name for a recipient that you use on a regular basis. The feature has changed a little over...
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Some best practices when working with Outlook Calendar
Prerequisites1.1 Make sure that you are up-to-date! 1.1.1 OutlookFor administrators is very important keep all Outlook clients updated with the latest Microsoft cumulative updates for...
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Special characters in an attachment filename get replaced with blank spaces...
Scenario:User A sends an email message with an attachment to User B. The attachment name has the following filename: Name.a.b.c.txt. When User B receives the attachment and opens it from Outlook he...
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Useful tools while troubleshooting Outlook issues (1) – Process Explorer
The following blog post will give an overview of common tools used to troubleshoot Outlook issues. I will focus in this post on Process Explorer. I will not cover all features that Process Explorer...
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Useful tools while troubleshooting Outlook issues (2) Process Monitor
Another tool that can be useful while trying to solve an Outlook issue is Process Monitor. Download link: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896645.aspx Process Monitor is an advanced...
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Useful tools while troubleshooting Outlook issues (3) - MFCMAPI
Continuing with the tools series I will briefly describe MFCMAPI tool in this post. MFCMAPI is one of most complex tools that we can use to investigate Outlook issues and not only. Taking in...
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Outlook 2010: Error adding more than 30 calendars in the Calendar module
Here is a good to know information about the Outlook 2010 Calendar module.If you got used to working with more than 30 calendars at the same time, then this blog will definitely help you further. I...
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Usage of the “Do not check e-mail address against address of certificates...
If a user sends out an e-mail from his e-mail address (user@contoso.com) and digitally signs the e-mail using a different e-mail address (user@test.contoso.com) --> the receiver will see the...
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When you export a personal distribution list from Outlook to Excel, the...
Recently I monitored the behavior when working with DL’s and trying to export them into Excel. Let’s take into account the following scenario: You are creating a personal distribution list in Outlook...
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How to deploy a PRF file in your organization using a .vbs file (logon script)!
If you want to deploy a PRF file to all your users you can use this sample .vbs code.I took some time and I wrote this sample code which will help you to deploy a PRF to all your users, but before...
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How to copy all Signatures or .NK2 files from Outlook 2003 to Outlook 2007!
For example if you migrated to Outlook 2007 and you also received a new machine, you want to make a back-up of the NK2 files and also to your signatures before the upgrade.With this sample .vbs logoff...
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How to share color categories for Outlook 2010
Since there aren't many written sources for sharing categories, I thought it might be useful to discuss a bit on this topic and how can this be achieved in Outlook 2010. As a background information for...
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