This is one of those subjects that keep coming up. A while ago, we had a post on how to troubleshoot error 0x8004010f when downloading an OAB in Outlook. Dave Goldman has been working on updating this guidance with latest tips and tricks and has, after Read More

As mentioned in my previous post on the subject of Autodiscover Service and Outlook Providers - I wanted to follow-up with the discussion of modifying the providers. What is the impact when we change the Outlook provider configuration? In what scenarios Read More

To allow Autodiscover to function completely there is an important component in Exchange 2007 Server named Providers. Providers are components that are specifically related to the type of client that is trying to connect and be configured. When the Client Read More

This August 2008, Microsoft has released an update to the Outlook Time Zone Update Tool. This new version (Version 3.0) offers, amongst others, better support for Israel and Brazil with regards to time zone handling and rebasing of calendars. The Exchange Read More

EDIT 8/22/2008: Corrected a typo in a "DisabledComponents" registry key name. It's been a while since I've been thinking of writing a blog post about various aspects of Outlook Anywhere that people have been asking questions about. Somehow, Read More

It's been a while since we last blogged about this Outlook feature that most users feel is an error, the RPC Dialog Box. You might get a popup error that will say: Outlook is retrieving data from the Microsoft Exchange Server <Server name>. Read More

In the past, if you wished to use S/MIME for e-mail encryption with an external recipient, you would add the recipient to your Contacts folder. This was typically done by having the recipient send you a digitally signed item and then right click on the Read More

With Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 you can now manage rules by logging into Outlook Web Access. The goal of the new rules interface is to provide Outlook users with a familiar experience for managing your rules. In the OWA options section is where Read More

EDIT 5/30/2008: The content of this article has since been published in our official Exchange documentation. Please go here for the most updated version. As part of a broader investigation, we measured the network costs between Enterprise email clients Read More

The Office Communicator team has posted a very interesting post if you have Exchange and Communicator in your environment. If you have tried to figure out the possible impact on your network from Outlook and Communicator integration, this post is for Read More

EDIT: This post has been updated on 5/20/2008 to include a link to an Outlook 2007 hotfix for this behavior. If you have been struggling with Delegate errors in multi-domain environments where you consistently get the below error when attempting to add Read More

The government of Argentina has announced (read more about it here, here and here) the implementation of daylight saving time (DST) in Argentina. The following are the start and end dates for the daylight saving time defined: Daylight saving time Read More

My mailbox size is 7.4GB. I send/receive around 200 emails a day; so that 7.4GB of email goes back several years. I don't use too many rules so most of my email ends up in my Inbox (30k items). If you have read Exchange mailbox sizing guidance, you Read More

You've been using Outlook for years now and you've probably established some delivery rules for yourself. Maybe mail from your manager is automatically routed to a subfolder of your inbox. If you're using Outlook 2003 or later, you've got an automatically Read More

In Exchange Server 2007 SP1, the configuration of Outlook Anywhere (formerly known as RPC over HTTP) has been changed to accommodate the different ways Exchange CAS servers are deployed on the Internet. This blog post provides an overview of these changes. Read More