John Durant recently blogged about his macro to create a task from an e-mail. I thought that was a great idea, so I modified it a bit to suit my purposes. I frequently take an item from my inbox and Edit | Move to Folder and move it to the tasks folder...

I stumbled across a link to this article on slipstick earlier today while researching some VBA things, and it's so simple I wanted to share it: How to assign a macro to a toolbar button in Outlook 1. View | Toolbars | Customize 2. On the Commands tab...

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Brian Desmond recently blogged about some funny KB articles (” Sometimes Barney Starts Playing Peekabo on His Own ” is my personal favorite). There was a stupid Exchange KB and a whitepaper with an unfortunate typo regarding “public...

I noticed a thread on one of the Exchange yahoogroups a few weeks ago about how the "Enable FBA" checkbox was grayed out on a certain server. It turns out that this is the expected behavior on clustered servers (and as a workaround, can use a front-end...

I noticed this blog entry (thank you, main feed!) with a feature request for Outlook, and I shared that request with the Outlook team. One of the PMs in Outlook suggested an idea of how to achieve something close to this by putting the flags on a toolbar...

Today, I was very rude to a helpdesk guy. I feel horrible about it - I was projecting my annoyance with some red tape on this poor guy, who had nothing to do with the problem. I was very curt and difficult with him, which was not productive. If I'd just...

Michael Earls sparked quite a debate with his posts over the last couple of months about asking Microsoft bloggers to blog more about the present , because although the future is interesting and good to stay on top of, it's not applicable to daily life...

Brian Alvey points to a Word HTML cleaner , as well as explains why Word puts all those extra tags into HTML when you save a word doc as HTML, or copy from Word into another HTML editor. Also see my previous post about reducing the size of the HTML that...

Short answer: No Long answer: No, because Content Indexing (CI) in Exchange server works in a fundamentally different manner than search folders. Longest answer: CI works by crawling the store at administrator-specified intervals, creating an index of...

Lydia Ash, a tester I used to work with on Outlook Web Access (and have a huge amount of respect for), has written a book about testing for the web: The Web Testing Companion , coming out in May 2003. She got a great review on StickyMinds as well. Way...

How did she know this would happen!?!?! And to think, we made so much fun of her - “that's not ironic... it's unfortunate.” Forgive us.

In a previous entry , I received a comment about how there were no examples of using WebDAV in the Exchange SDK with ASP.Net... I forwarded it to our SDK team (who can be reached at exsdkfb AT microsoft DOT com) and they pointed out several examples for...

This is an issue that gets debated around the company from time to time, and there are many people on both sides of the fence who feel passionately about it. In Exchange 2000 SP1, we did add a few features . In Exchange 2000 SP2, we added even more (I...

PSS has created a new process whereby MVPs can submit KB articles. Hours after being submitted, they are available online and show up in the search results along with articles written by Microsoft. You can look for articles submitted by MVPs by searching...

The www.microsoft.com/exchange web team and PSS put together a page with links to a bunch of other sources of information about mailbox management in Exchange 2003: http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/techinfo/administration/mailbox.asp

In Exchange 2003 running on Windows 2003, when using NTBackup (aka "Backup Utility for Windows"), you won't be able to back up the system state at the same time as the information store, due to a change in the interaction between NTBackup on Windows 2003...

Check out http://www.technetbriefings.com/ to see talks that the Technet team is giving across the country. There's an Exchange 2003 Technical Overview happening regularly over the next few months.

A few months ago, I blogged about how mapping software gets its data . A friend recently posted this link from craigslist about an organization looking for interns to help with similar activities in the Seattle area.

At least, according to google ... ;-)

Neil posted today about lost time due to mailbox cleanup when users hit their e-mail quotas. There are tools that administrators can use to control the size of users' mailboxes, but in Outlook 2002/2003, users have a simple entrypoint to managing the...

The newest Bachelorette might seem a tad familiar, because that's her face on the Microsoft Digital Image 9 Pro box:

As William mentioned earlier this week, there's a security patch with a fix for Exchange in it. This patch addresses the security vulnerability uncovered last month that can happen if you have WSS installed on top of an Exchange server ( a workaround...

Tosh is a developer on the Outlook Web Access (OWA) team I used to work with when I was a PM on OWA. Of course, the one feature we worked on together never happened, but such is the breaks of the software business :-) He's posted several OWA tips recently...

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/challenge/default.mspx Describe how Win2k3 and Windows Server System (i.e. Exchange, SQL, etc) integrated server software benefits your organization and your customers.