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New Recover Deleted Items from Server button in Outlook
Posted
3 months ago
by
Joe Schaeffer MSFT
8
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Wanted to make you aware of a change made in Outlook 2013 with the October 2014 updates. After installing the October 2014 update for Outlook 2013 , when you click on the Deleted Items folder, you’ll find a new button on the HOME tab for that...
Current Cumulative Updates for Office - Q4 2014
Posted
3 months ago
by
Joe Schaeffer MSFT
3
Comments
As I mentioned in the Current Cumulative Updates for Office - Q3 2012 post, each quarter I will post information on the latest updates for the Office for Windows and Office for Macintosh products. The information below is being provided regarding the...
Maintaining Lync and SQL
Posted
5 months ago
by
Joe Schaeffer MSFT
First, my apologies in advance for my being a bit long worded in this post, but I thought this was the best way to communicate and explain this… An issue that has troubled customers for many years is that many of our products use or rely on...
Current Cumulative Updates for Office - Q3 2014
Posted
6 months ago
by
Joe Schaeffer MSFT
1
Comment
As I mentioned in the Current Cumulative Updates for Office - Q3 2012 post, each quarter I will post information on the latest updates for the Office for Windows and Office for Macintosh products. The information below is being provided regarding the...
Current Cumulative Updates for Office - Q2 2014
Posted
9 months ago
by
Joe Schaeffer MSFT
2
Comments
As I mentioned in the Current Cumulative Updates for Office - Q3 2012 post, each quarter I will post information on the latest updates for the Office for Windows and Office for Macintosh products. The information below is being provided regarding the...
Current Cumulative Updates for Office - Q1 2014
Posted
over 1 year ago
by
Joe Schaeffer MSFT
6
Comments
As I mentioned in the Current Cumulative Updates for Office - Q3 2012 post, each quarter I will post information on the latest updates for the Office for Windows and Office for Macintosh products. The information below is being provided regarding the...
Removing ActiveSync Devices Without Prompting
Posted
over 1 year ago
by
Joe Schaeffer MSFT
So, I consider myself a pretty good PowerShell user/scripter. But, I was stumped by a small issue with trying to use the "Remove-ActiveSyncDevice" cmdlet in Exchange 2010 to not prompt for each device removal. Our (Microsoft) TechNet article on using...
Moving the OST in Outlook 2013 for Windows RT
Posted
over 1 year ago
by
Joe Schaeffer MSFT
9
Comments
I recently ran into this and wanted to share, as I'm sure others may run into this as well. As many of you may know, Windows RT 8.1 includes a version of Outlook 2013...so that you're not limited to just using the Windows Mail app...which is great...
Current Cumulative Updates for Office - Q4 2013
Posted
over 1 year ago
by
Joe Schaeffer MSFT
1
Comment
As I mentioned in the Current Cumulative Updates for Office - Q3 2012 post, each quarter I will post information on the latest updates for the Office for Windows and Office for Macintosh products. The information below is being provided regarding the...
Determining Lync 2013 Client Installed using the Registry
Posted
over 1 year ago
by
Joe Schaeffer MSFT
2
Comments
Recently a customer asked me for a way to determine which Lync 2013 client their users had installed (basic vs. full) using the registry. We don't have this well documented (ok, to be honest I could not find any documentation on it), so I did some testing...
Issues with Icons After July 2013 Lync 2013 Security Update is Installed
Posted
over 1 year ago
by
Joe Schaeffer MSFT
Several customers are reporting an issue after installing the July 2013 Security Update for Lync 2013 related to icons not be rendered correctly or missing entirely. This issue has been found to be related to other updates missing on the workstation,...
New Features in Lync 2013 Client with July 2013 Security Update
Posted
over 1 year ago
by
Joe Schaeffer MSFT
8
Comments
Update December 4, 2013: In the November 2013 update for the Lync 2013 Client, they changed the icon for the Upcoming Meetings list to a mini calendar: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------...
Change in Lync 2013 System Tray Icon with July 2013 Updates
Posted
over 1 year ago
by
Joe Schaeffer MSFT
32
Comments
Updated: September 16, 2013 : As mentioned in the comments, the September 2013 update for Lync 2013 reverts the System Tray functionality back to the pre-July 2013 update. HOWEVER, as also mentioned...a bug causing issues with Outlook was found and the...
Exchange Setup Logs - Best Practices
Posted
over 1 year ago
by
Joe Schaeffer MSFT
One of the great things the Exchange Product Group did, starting with Exchange 2007, was to start generating informative log files as part of the installation/upgrade process. Gone are the days when you had no log files and you got 75% of the way through...
Current Cumulative Updates for Office - Q3 2013
Posted
over 1 year ago
by
Joe Schaeffer MSFT
As I mentioned in the Current Cumulative Updates for Office - Q3 2012 post, each quarter I will post information on the latest updates for the Office for Windows and Office for Macintosh products. The information below is being provided regarding the...
Current Cumulative Updates for Office - Q2 2013
Posted
over 1 year ago
by
Joe Schaeffer MSFT
2
Comments
As I mentioned in the Current Cumulative Updates for Office -Q3 2012 post, each quarter I will post information on the latest updates for the Office for Windows and Office for Macintosh products. The information below is being provided regarding the...
Current Cumulative Updates for Office - Q1 2013
Posted
over 2 years ago
by
Joe Schaeffer MSFT
As I mentioned in the Current Cumulative Updates for Office -Q3 2012 post, each quarter I will post information on the latest updates for the Office for Windows and Office for Macintosh products. The information below is being provided regarding the...
Lync 2013 SE Install - Service Control Manager error
Posted
over 2 years ago
by
Joe Schaeffer MSFT
25
Comments
So, ran into a little issue in my lab that I thought I'd share...since the solution wasn't readily apparent (at least at first). So, I was trying to install a Lync 2013 Standard Edition server as the first server in an org. The server name was Lync15SE...
Current Cumulative Updates for Office - Q4 2012
Posted
over 2 years ago
by
Joe Schaeffer MSFT
2
Comments
As I mentioned in the Current Cumulative Updates for Office -Q3 2012 post, each quarter I will post information on the latest updates for the Office for Windows and Office for Macintosh products. The information below is being provided regarding the...
Current Cumulative Updates for Office - Q3 2012
Posted
over 2 years ago
by
Joe Schaeffer MSFT
6
Comments
Almost a year ago, I posted Keeping Up with Office Updates which discusses the cumulative updates for Office (and Outlook in particular) that companies need to be aware of and push out to their users. For my direct customers, every quarter I send an email...
Part II: Disabled Accounts and Users Still Being Able to Access via Outlook & OWA
Posted
over 2 years ago
by
Joe Schaeffer MSFT
7
Comments
In Part I, I provided information regarding users’ mobile devices still being able to synchronize with Exchange (via ActiveSync) even after their AD Accounts have been disabled. I included related best practices on how to stop devices from syncing...
Part I : Disabled Accounts and ActiveSync Devices Continuing to Sync
Posted
over 2 years ago
by
Joe Schaeffer MSFT
4
Comments
Recently, an issue that has been around for some time started generating a lot of renewed interest. The issue I'm referring to is regarding Exchange users still having access for several hours after their AD Account has been disabled. This post is Part...
LDAP to OPATH Conversion - Why All The Parenthesis?
Posted
over 2 years ago
by
Joe Schaeffer MSFT
I recently was working with a customer in their process to convert their legacy Address Lists from LDAP (used by Exchange 2003) to OPATH (required by Exchange 2007/2010) and ran into an interesting find. After using the LDAP to OPATH conversion script...
Outlook Anywhere Network Timeout Issue
Posted
over 2 years ago
by
Joe Schaeffer MSFT
7
Comments
Background Over the past 6 months, our BPOS support team has been trying to get to the bottom of issues some customers were experiencing with Outlook Anywhere where Outlook (2007 & 2010) reports that it is connected but when a user tries to send...
Forcing Use of Lync Web App to Join a Conference
Posted
over 2 years ago
by
Joe Schaeffer MSFT
10
Comments
Overview When you receive and click on a meeting request to join a Lync-based meeting, If you have Lync Client 2010 installed it will be used to join that meeting. What if there's a problem joining the conference using the Lync thick client (there...
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