Outlook
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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…
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The font is very small and the recipient sees very LARGE fonts when composing a new e-mail in Outlook
I was contacted this week with a very interesting problem when a user is composing a new e-mail in Microsoft Outlook this week. The problem: The user starts to compose a new e-mail but the font is really small. When the recipient receives the e-mail they found that the font is very big on the recipients side. Now this could be a very confusing issue if you think about it. How does the font just change size from the sender to the recipient? First things most people would look at is the mail filtering applications or devices that their companies use. This brings me to the old saying in IT,…