Questions tagged [outlook]
Outlook is a standalone or groupware client for Microsoft Exchange. It is used for Email, contacts, tasks and calendar.
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How to configure email autoconfiguration for a domain?
Outlook and a number of other email clients now feature autodiscovery of mail server settings and it bugs me that I don't have this set up for our domains, but I'm not sure how to do it and a quick ...
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Linux clients for Exchange (email and) calendar [closed]
At $work, the official email solution is Outlook on Windows, connected to an Exchange server. That's problematic for people with Linux on their desktop machine.
The Exchange server supports IMAP, and ...
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When I have a * entry in my zone file, how can I treat a specific name as nonexistent?
On our main domain, example.com we're hosting a lot of websites. So we just added a * A/AAAA record to our zone and pointed it at our webserver.
Sadly, this also causes Outlook to constantly hammer ...
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Outlook security alert - The name on the security certificate is invalid or does not match the name of the site
SBS 2008 running Exchange 2007 and IIS6.0
CompanyA has two other companies that operate under the same roof. To accommodate email, we have 3 Exchange accounts per user to manage this. All users use ...
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Email bounce back 550 5.1.1 recipient rejected
A client recently switched to Exchange Server / Outlook for their email. Since then emails from my company to any email address at their company bounce back from the System Administrator with this ...
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What is the cause of FAST I/O DISALLOWED errors? (Causing Outlook to open attachments really slowly)
When a colleague tries to open attachments in her email (Outlook 2003 talking to an Exchange 2007 server) they take ages to open. The files are relatively small, all less than 1MB.
We've tried ...
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outlook requiring password after exchange reboot
We recently moved from Exchange 2003 to 2010, and have noticed a quirk that is annoying us.
If our exchange server (single server) goes down, ie it gets rebooted, or client loses connectivity (or for ...
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outlook 2016 (office 365) using incorrect time zone for emails
I have two users in Taipei time zone.
Both are using PCs with system time correctly set to Taipei time.
Both have an Office 365 E3 Enterprise account on the same tenant and have Office 2016 ...
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Outlook Calendar Icon Question. Why is there a line through the recurring symbol
Why is there a line through the recurring meeting symbol on an outlook calendar event?
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ScanOST Vs. ScanPST
When an OST file is corrupted, Outlook (2007) complains:
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Errors have been detected in the file blah.ost. Quit Outlook and all mail-enabled applications, and then use the Inbox repair tool(Scanpst....
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Abnormally high Outlook 2010 RAM usage for one Terminal Server user (RDS)
I'm working on a busy Windows 2008R2 Terminal Server where a particular user's Outlook session consumes between 2GB and 4GB of RAM.
The process doesn't appear to be a slow memory leak, as the RAM is ...
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Display a TLS icon for messages that are TLS secured (Outlook)
One of my colleagues at a large financial institution has customised Lotus Notes to show a TLS icon for messages that are TLS secured.
I'm interested in imitating this feature in Outlook, and believe ...
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Preventing 'Reply-All' to Exchange Distribution Groups
This is another question in a short series regarding a challenging Exchange project my co-workers have been asked to implement. (I'm helping even though I'm primarily a Unix guy because I volunteered ...
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How to check if a mail server is flagged as SPAM by GMail?
I am using POSTFIX for sending mails. The mails that are sent from my mail server - mydomain.com are marked as SPAM in GMail. In other E-mail services like Yahoo and RediffMail, the mails are received ...
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Outlook Encrypted Emails boo boo
I just reinstalled my Windows OS 7 and forgot to backup my Email Certificate for Outlook 2010 beforehand. Now I can't read any encrypted emails. When I try, it says "Cannot open this item. Your ...
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Change Outlook "reply to" based upon sent address?
We have a shared mailbox on Exchange 2010 that multiple clients access using Outlook 2010. There are multiple distribution lists (that each have multiple email addresses) that point to this single ...
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Configuring Monit to Send Mail through Office365
I'm trying to configure monit to send emails through Office365. Here's the relevant configuration:
set mailserver smtp.office365.com port 587
username "username" password "password"
using ...
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Converting a Maildir to a PST
Does anyone know of any solutions to convert a Maildir to a PST in linux? I'm able to use a program in Windows called Aid4Mail, but that requires me to pull the Maildir down from the server. I've got ...
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Open Source company grade alternative to Outlook?
This is not for me personally but for everyone searching this in a search engine, so this is a community wiki question.
This question is based on this answer in which he stands that Mozilla ...
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How do you force Outlook 2007 to re-index it's seach on Windows XP SP 3?
So I have a Windows XP SP 3 machine which is running Outlook 2007. When I search in Outlook for an email that exists using a basic keyword, like say "MySQL", I get no results. However, Outlook gives ...
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Write-protect Outlook PST file
I am looking for a way to write-protect Outlook PST files, so that one cannot accidentally delete mails from or add mails to the PST file. The file is an archive and shall be accessible read-only from ...
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Outlook: how do I display the email address in TO:, rather than the account?
I have an exchange mailbox called "Support" with two email addresses:
[email protected] (primary)
[email protected]
Mail to both addresses goes to the same inbox correctly and message show as To: Support....
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Users getting 'flooded' with not read notifications (NRNs) for old emails and meeting requests
I'm being placed under quite a lot of pressure from senior management over a relatively trivial issue. Basically the vast majority of users are complaining that they receive not read notifications (...
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Outlook 2003 (with Exchange 2007) error: You cannot respond to a meeting without an Organizer
The company recently upgraded to Exchange 2007. Since the upgrade users who are still on Outlook 2003 (SP3) get the following error for some meeting requests:
You cannot respond to a meeting ...
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How do you persuade users to abandon their personal folders?
Towards the end of last year we started using Mimecast services, in particular their cloud-based e-mail archiving. Since then we’ve been rolling out the Mimecast Services for Outlook (MSO) add-in.
We’...
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How to recover outlook emails
It has happened many times in my organization that some people have left in not really good terms. So when you go to check their computers you find that they normally delete their emails, sometimes ...
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Multiple Outlook users on a Single PST file?
I am guessing the answer is no, but can multiple outlook users use the same PST file at the same time from a file server?
The idea being to get some old stuff off of the Exchange server that a couple ...
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Anyone migrated from Lotus Notes to Exchange? [closed]
If you have I'm interested in the user experience and admin experience. Did users prefer Outlook over Notes? Did the sysadmins prefer Exchange over Domino? If so why?
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Prevent user "click-expansion" of Exchange distribution group?
I am a Unix guy who recently picked up powershell to help my Exchange admin coworkers implement a challenging project in Exchange 2010. (The requirements we've been given are challenging if not ...
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Email automatically deleted after few minutes in Outlook
Hi all,
I have a user here, our CEO, that can't keep his incoming email more than 3-4 minutes in his inbox. He is able to get the email, we see the popup confirming the email has been received but ...
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How might I grant access to everyone's calendar in Exchange 2007?
We're considering changing our users' Outlook calendar permissions for all users so that everyone has "Reviewer" access by default. Since our users primarily use their calendars for business (and can ...
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Exchange Server 2007 Setup
I'm working on a upgrade to Exchange 2007 and I wanted to get some advise on hardware choices. We currently have an Exchange 2003 STD server with 400 users split between 6 AD Sites, that is housed on ...
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Personal email archive alternative to PST files
If you aren't willing or able to prevent users from keeping old emails "forever", what solution do you have?
Exchange 2007 allows pretty massive mailboxes, but lots of people still recommend against ...
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How does Outlook identify "Extra Line Breaks"
I am writing a script that emails the output to me, and I read it in Outlook. For some reason Outlook removes all the line breaks in the message, and gives me a little notice that it has removed the ...
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Does Outlook continue to auto-discover account settings for already configured accounts? Can it be prevented?
fail2ban just locked me out of our website because something from my desktop was hammering port 443 on the server (which is not in use).
I saw my IP also requesting "GET /autodiscover/autodiscover....
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Force outlook to refresh/update calender more often?
I work as a sys-admin at a lawyer office. They have a lot of meetings and their schedule is very important to them.
Outlook 2007 does a fine job. The server is Windows Server 2003 running Exchange ...
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Outlook still connects to on-premise Exchange after migration
After migrating to Office 365, our Outlook clients in the office still connect to the on-premise exchange. Mobile and remote clients already work fine.
What's going on? How do I fix this?
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Disabling Specific Options in Outlook 2010 through Group Policy?
Alright, all research thus far has failed me, this must be a somewhat obscure problem. I think I am close but I need an answer as to whether or not what I am trying to do is possible so I don't waste ...
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What is the best way to manage shared contacts between MS Exchange and iPhones
We are currently running:
Exchange 2003
Office 2007
We have exchange public folders that contain business contacts. Our business phones are iPhones, the iPhone does not support public folders. What ...
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Add Pictures to Active Directory for Outlook Contacts
What I'm trying to do here without wasting too much time is we want our company to have all the associate photos as their contact pictures in Outlook. I know Outlook 2007 and Outlook 2010 have a lot ...
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Moving to an outside Exchange provider - How to create new Outlook profile on multiple PCs?
Following an acquisition we are switching from our local Exchange to an outside provider. I need to change account settings / create new profile so that users are able to access their new mailbox, and ...
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What's your maximum email message size, and what do you do for bigger files?
As the subject says... We're using Exchange 2007 and (mostly) Outlook 2003 and have a limit of 20MB. For larger files, we have an ftp server that people inside can easily copy files to or from, and ...
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Is the Outlook OST cache file encrypted?
Is the OST cache file created by Outlook encrypted? I understand that Outlook won't open the file unless it can connect to the user's Exchange account, but I'm wondering if there's a possibility that ...
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How to suppress an unwanted external Autodiscover lookup?
In a small network with Exchange 2007, when starting Outlook 2010 (and once in a while afterwards), users get a prompt to confirm that it's safe to get account configuration information from ...
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Exchange Cached Mode (Exchange 2010) with Outlook 2003 and Outlook 2010 Causing Sync Issues
We have Exchange 2010 and a mix of Outlook 2003 and Outlook 2010 clients.
When Exchange Cached Mode is enabled, clients are receiving sync issues. In Outlook 2010, the sync issues are mainly with the ...
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How to get around Outlook/Exchange's Rules and Alerts 32KB limit?
I use Outlook's Rules and Alerts facility to automatically file my emails. I find it a great time saver. However, I've recently been unable to add further rules - Outlook suggests that there is ...
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Outlook sets wrong "Date" header
When sending new emails, the date header is not set in UTC +0100. Problem occurs on every client (WTSx5) and with different Users.
The dateheader:
Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2014 09:10:05 +0000
To the ...
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Outlook Change Password Prompt - What enables this, and what do I put for Exchange Server?
One of my end users sent me this screen, which is obviously indicative of an expired user password
I'm unable to replicate this in my lab, nor do I know what value to put in for Exchange. (is it ...
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Samba4 locked pst files
i have a samba4 server that holds my clients outlook pst files, if the outlook client or the machine crashes i must go to the server to kill the PID manually.
i saw there was "reset on zero vc =yes" ...
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Exchange 2003-Exchange 2010 post migration GAL/OAB problem
I am very new to Exchange so forgive my newbie-ness. I've exhausted Google trying to find a way to solve my problem so I'm hoping some of you gurus can shed some light on my next steps. Please forgive ...
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