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In 2004, I wrote an article Why Can't I Have Outlook and Exchange on the same Computer? It applied to versions of Exchange prior to Exchange Server 2007. When written, E12 (Exchange 2007) was still quite early in development at MSFT... Today, times and situations have changed. With Exchange Server...

Almost everyone has, at one time or another, wished that you could have multiple copies of Outlook running at the same time. After all, opening another mailbox within Outlook doesn't give you windows toast and calendar pops, etc. The standard answer has always been "run Outlook for your primary...

I don't often just link to another blog posting for MY blog posting, but this one deserves it. It's not new, but last year fellow Exchange MVP Glen Scales wrote a script which allows you to export large mailboxes to ANSI PSTs. It does this by copying each item in a source mailbox to a destination...

I imagine that many of my readers are already aware of this fact, but it is a very common question on the forums, especially as the pace of Exchange Server 2003 to Exchange Server 2007 upgrades appears to be increasing. The question is this: when I move a user's mailbox from one server to another...

I had a poster on a mailing list ask a question recently, and while researching the answer I came across KB 948716 . Now, that particular KB article is of great interest because it includes all the patches in KB 941275 . KB 941275 is basically a mini-service pack. It's got a number of fixes for issues...

Generally speaking, Outlook 2003 and Outlook 2007 have a built-in mechanism that allows a user to change their password. In Outlook 2007, you find this (almost) hidden capability at Tools -> Options -> Other -> Advanced Options -> Custom Forms -> Password. In Outlook 2003, it is in about...

Originally published April 18, 2007 I found Outlook 2007 impossible to use at RTM (release-to-manufacturing - when a MSFT product is first released) because it was too doggone slow with my large mailbox. I dropped back to Office 2003 (since with my job, I pretty much live in Outlook). But MSFT released...

Originally published December 21, 2005 A number of folks have been running into Outlook 2003 POP3 problems, where either Outlook hangs or generates a timeout. It is pretty obvious that there was an undocumented change in Exchange 2003 service pack 2 about the handling of POP3 messages. To read the relevant...

Originally published September 15, 2005 I don't know that I would ever do this, but I thought the solution was pretty cool. If you have a situation where you want to prevent users from using Deleted Item Recovery in Outlook, you have a mechanism for preventing them from doing so. However, a savvy...

Originally published September 14, 2004 One of the common, perrennial and “whaddayamean I can't do this!?!” questions on the mailing lists is about putting Outlook and Exchange (which includes Exchange Admin!) on the same computer. It's not supported. And while it will often (usually) work if...