Archive for the ‘Outlook’ Category

Outlook 2010 Nickname Cache – An insider Story

Name cache in Outlook is a great feature, we all know. I personally find it extremely very useful since it saves a lot of time while selecting recipients. It has also helped adding few of those recipients who were likely to get missed on an email. Outlook 2003 and 2007 both used locally stored .NK2 [...]

January 7, 2012   Posted in: Exchange 2010, Outlook  9 Comments

NoReplyAll – Outlook Addin

I do remember when one of my colleagues asked me to find out a way to hide the Reply To All button on outlook message form or place it somewhere else than it’s regular location on new message form. I have no clue why did they want to implement this (don’t even want to know [...]

February 20, 2011   Posted in: Outlook  Comments Closed

Exchange 2010 Online Archive Support for Outlook 2007– Now Available

I have seen many people asking a very common question in forums and restricted news groups, “Is there any support available for Outlook 2007 clients to access Exchange 2010 online archive?” Answer to this was no but now Yes. It is available now. Exchange team announced the support yesterday and the December 2010 cumulative update [...]

December 22, 2010   Posted in: Exchange 2010, News, Outlook  4 Comments

Additional Mailbox Auto Mapping in Exchange 2010 SP1

A user having full mailbox access on another mailbox can have that mailbox added in outlook profile so that he/she don’t have to logon to that mailbox separately. This has been a regular practice for many organization. Normally a support mailbox where all support requests are stored is a common example of an additional mailbox [...]

October 13, 2010   Posted in: Active Directory, Exchange 2010, Outlook  5 Comments

How to add Employee Numbers in ADUC and Exchange GAL

Some companies need to use AD to store their Employee Numbers or Employee IDs but due to limitations in ADUC MMC most of the people don’t tend to do this. I am not very sure how frequently some company needs this but one of my friend needed it for sure. I did this in my [...]

May 6, 2010  Tags: ,   Posted in: Active Directory, Exchange 2007, Exchange 2010, Outlook  20 Comments

Week Numbers 1 week ahead in Outlook

Today when I came in office I saw an email from my boss. He was asked by one the bussiness heads that why the week numbers in outlook would show one week ahead? Here is a little background about the week numbers: Week number according to the ISO-8601 standard, weeks starting on Monday. The first [...]

March 5, 2010   Posted in: Exchange 2003, Exchange 2007, Outlook  Comments Closed

How to prevent users from delegating their own mailboxes

Delegation is a great feature of outlook where users can allow their mailbox contents to be shared with their colleagues within the team. It also reduces the load on exchange administrators or the helpdesk to grant full mailbox permissions at the server level. Though this feature is greatly helpful in many scenarios it becomes a [...]

June 3, 2009   Posted in: Outlook  2 Comments

Last name of user appears as salutation (Title) in outlook contacts

We have a user who reported that when she saves a contact of her own name in outlook 2003 or in outlook 2007 and her mailbox is on Exchange Server 2003, her last name is automatically prefixed to her contact and is displayed something like “LastName FirstName LastName”. That was really weird because she was [...]

March 28, 2009   Posted in: Exchange Server 2003, Exchange Server 2007, Outlook  Comments Closed

All day events that span two days across time zones in Outlook

This is just a small follow up note to the Microsoft KB 262451. Sometimes, even if you choose the time of the meeting manually you still see the calendar entry spanned across two days. Why would that happen if Microsoft has already addressed the issue. Is this a bug? No it is not. It is [...]

January 23, 2009   Posted in: CAS, Exchange Server 2003, Exchange Server 2007, General, Mobility, Outlook  Comments Closed