Outlook 2013
Anything interesting and related to Microsoft Outlook 2003
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Old Out of Office message is sent even after a new message has been created
We had a few instances this year where users create a new Out of Office message but then report that the previous Out of Office message is sent instead of the new Out of Office message or both are sent to people that sent mail to them. I found that most of the time running outlook.exe /cleanrules works if that does not work please see method 2 below. Method 1 Close Outlook Click on start and in run type Outlook.exe /cleanrules then hit enter Wait for replication and send a test mail to the mailbox to see if the old Out of Office message is not sent out anymore If…
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Prohibit meeting request recipients from forwarding a meeting request – Outlook 2013
We had a user requesting assistance on how to prohibit other people from forwarding his meeting requests. In the below video I show you how to do just that from within Outlook 2013.
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Out of Office not working – Using Exchange Autodiscover Redirect
Had an interesting one today with a bit of a lesson at the end of the article. Scenario: Users are able to connect to Exchange with Outlook, send and receive mails etc. Users are however unable to set up their Out of Office using Outlook but they are able to set it using Outlook WebApp. We have a hybrid Exchange environment with 2010 and 2007 CAS servers. In the back-end we are running an Exchange 2007 CCR Cluster. Past troubleshooting with regards to Out of Office not working has taught me to check and test autodiscover. I bet that the OAB is also not downloading? I ran the normal checks…