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When trying to remove the first Exchange 2003 Server from a site (that was previously an Exchange 5.5 and Exchange 2000 server and POORLY managed, orphaned and lots of other neglect by its previous owner), I ended up with two issues before I could successfully/cleanly uninstall Exchange from this server (after migrating all valid mailboxes …

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View All Message Headers in Outlook To have Outlook 2007 show you a message’s all header lines: Open the email in a new window by double-clicking it. Click the expansion button in the lower right corner of the Options toolbar box. The box by default holds the Follow Up and Mark as Unread buttons. Find …

You’ll need your organizational forms library recreated (you probably didn’t replicate it during your Exchange 2003 to 2007 migration). How to create an Organizational Forms Library in Exchange 2007 – http://support.microsoft.com/kb/933358

Well, this was a frustrating experience, as I was trying to make Outlook Anywhere work with a single cert, only realizing later that I needed a wildcard cert, which I didn’t have. Anyways, got it licked with the following information that I’m bookmarking so I don’t have to chase it later. The first short blog …

How to Enable Outlook Anywhere Before You begin, to enable Outlook Anywhere, you must follow these steps in the following order:Install a valid Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificate from a trusted certification authority (CA) that the client trusts. Install the Windows RPC over HTTP Proxy component. Enable Outlook Anywhere on a computer that has the …

Looking for values to stick in there and what they should be, for the Exchange Connection Filtering rule? Here’s a quick overview and samples. Entries you could use: Spamhaus: sbl.spamhaus.org SpamCop: bl.spamcop.net Where to put ’em

Now this is dumb. Buy a Dell Computer, have Outlook installed (in my case 2003) and when you edit an appointment (i.e. second time, not creation of the appointment), the appointment becomes a recurring appointment and can’t be converted back to a non-recurring appointment. LAME LAME LAME. Well guess what, if this is happening to …

I’ve seen these before, as recently as a coworkers (Hi Louis) desktop so it was worth documenting. Issue 1:1. When connecting to OWA (Exchange Webmail), when composing a new message, a red x appears in the body area of the message, as though it wasn’t accepting an activex control or otherwise. Popup blockers were not …

At the end of the day, you really shouldn’t have anything in your Outlook Inbox and here is why: Stress: Emails in your inbox mean something is left undone. Every email should have one of the following five actions, thus meaning it shouldn’t be in your inbox at the end of the day 1. Discard …