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Outlook Fails To Download OAB

 

This is an article written by Frank Plawetzki, a Senior PFE from Deutschland, and originally published on Opsvault.

 

 

Throughout the last weeks I have seen two different issues that prevented Outlook clients from downloading the OAB (Offline Address Book). One affected public-folder based OAB distribution and the other affected web-based distribution.

I want to provide some hints on t… Read the rest “Outlook Fails To Download OAB”

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Exchange 2007–Service Pack 3 Is Required

After seeing several posts in the TechNet Exchange forums, where people are posting an overview of their environment as part of the problem statement, it is clear that multiple customers are not maintaining the correct service pack level on their Exchange servers.

I previously blogged about this for Exchange 2010, and this time lets focus on Exchange 2007.

The Exchange 2007 lifecycle can be viewed hRead the rest “Exchange 2007–Service Pack 3 Is Required”

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Exchange 2007 SP3 RU6 Released

Exchange sustained engineering has released Exchange 2007 SP3 RU6 to the Microsoft download centre as update 2608656.

The description of the update can be located here and the update is located here.

I’ll leave you you to peruse the changes, but there are a couple in particular worth highlighting

2545080 Users in a source forest cannot view the free/busy information of mailboxes in a target forest when… Read the rest “Exchange 2007 SP3 RU6 Released”

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Exchange 2007 & 2010 Least Cost Routing

Exchange Routing Path

Exchange 2007 & 2010 use a different message routing design than Exchange 2003.  This is an important aspect to understand when transitioning from Exchange 2003 upwards due to the change in behaviour.

TechNet has articles that discuses these concepts :

Exchange 2010 http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa998825.aspx

Exchange 2007 http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa998825(EXCHG.80)Read the rest “Exchange 2007 & 2010 Least Cost Routing”

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Exchange & The Autodiscover Web Service

In the Exchange 2003 world and below, those administrators looking to automate and control the behaviour of MAPI profiles on user’s desktops quickly became familiar with tools like:

  • ORK (Office Resource Kit)
  • .PRF Files
  • .OPS files (from the Office Profile wizard)
  • PROFGEN
  • PRFPATCH
  • ExProfRe

For a refresher on such joys  of .PRF files etc. take a peek at:

Whitepaper: Configuring Outlook Profiles by Using a PRRead the rest “Exchange & The Autodiscover Web Service”