Part 1: The Setup This blog is split in two parts, first covering checkpoints for a correct setup for GAL pictures and the second Outlook client troubeshooting focused on Exchange Cached Mode. Setting pictures in Active directory is a great feature...

An Outlook meeting has a notes area that can be used to store information related to the meeting. Although it may seem very convenient to add notes directly into the meeting, there are few things that you should consider before you do this. The meeting...

Outlook allows users to share folders so that others can interact with items in those folders. Additionally, a user can be configured as an Outlook Delegate, allowing him or her to manage specific tasks on your behalf, such as meeting related tasks. If...

Reading additional mailboxes from a given e-mail profile is much simpler than adding them. After retrieving all installed providers for the MSEMS service, just loop thru all providers and search for the ones with PR_PROFILE_TYPE set to the value 2. ...

There's a well-known knowledge base article which describes on how to programmatically add mailboxes to a given e-mail profile: 171636 How to add more Exchange mailboxes to a MAPI profile http://support.microsoft.com/kb/171636/EN-US This code has been...

I would like to take the chance of describing the function of " word wheeling " in Outlook Instant Search The function “Display search results as I type when possible”(word wheeling) , can be a little ambiguous. You may wonder what are...

If you frequently work with meetings in Outlook, it is very likely that at some point you read the Outlook meeting requests: Essential do’s and don’ts article. However, you probably noticed that this older document only generally applies to...

General information: Starting with Outlook 2010, we introduced a new feature that allows users to add Multiple Microsoft Exchange accounts to the same profile: http://office.microsoft.com/en-gb/outlook-help/what-s-new-in-microsoft-outlook-2010...

If you want to change the calendar Work Week for example from “ Sunday until Thursday” you can do that automatically by simple running the below sample script. We took some time and we wrote this sample code which will help you to deploy this...

Since working with the Outlook calendar, and more specifically with meetings, it is very likely that the majority of us have encountered situations in which updates to meetings are not triggering the same type of message. And what I mean by this is...

If there are users in your company that have huge mailboxes and in addition need to log on different machines all the time, you may consider enabling “Download Headers” in order to avoid spending a lot of time doing a full sync of the information...

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 versions prior to Outlook 2007 category information...

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 script you can copy all these information from this...

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 doing this please read the statement below: “MICROSOFT...

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 (no matter which version) and you...

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 signature as trusted. This happens although the signing...

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 know this limitation was not present under Outlook...

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 consideration the complexity of this tool, I will not...

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 monitoring tool for Windows that shows real...

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 has, but I will try to highlight some of them that you...

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 will see thatdots (“.”) from the file...

Prerequisites 1.1 Make sure that you are up-to-date! 1.1.1 Outlook For administrators is very important keep all Outlook clients updated with the latest Microsoft cumulative updates for Office/Outlook. 1.1.2 Exchange Exchange server...

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 the years with the different versions of 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 Junk emails are all about, and I will not start...

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 but not frequently used. It is typically most...