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Showing posts with label Microsoft Outlook. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Microsoft Outlook. Show all posts

Monday, April 27, 2009

Group Policy for safe sender lists in Outlook 2007 does not work

Description:
You have set Outlook 2007 safe sender list through GPO however it isn’t applying to users. You’ve check that the GPO was applied successfully.

Resolution:
Change the safe sender list path to
\\servername\sharefolder\filename. It cannot use the %logonserver%\sharefolder syntax.

Sunday, February 17, 2008

Managing Distribution/Security group membership from Microsoft Outlook

We can manage the membership of a distribution or security group through Microsoft Outlook if they have an email address setup.
1. Go to the user properties at Active Directory Users and Computers.
2. Click the Managed By tab, click change, choose the name to be the manager of the group.
3. Give check mark on the ‘Manager can update membership list’.

To modify the membership through Microsoft Outlook
1. At Microsoft Outlook, open Address Book
2. Double click on the distribution group name.
3. Under the distribution group properties, click Modify Members.
4. Under Distribution List Membership, click Add. Choose the name to be the member of the distribution list.
5. Click OK 3 times.

How to setup an automatic reply in Outlook 2003/Outlook 2007

The following is done from Microsoft Outlook:
1. On the Tools menu, click Rules and Alerts.
2. In the Rules and Alerts dialog box, click the New Rule button on the E-mail Rules tab.
3. In the Rules Wizard, click the Start from a blank rule button, click Check messages when they arrive, and then click Next.
4. Under Which condition(s) do you want to check?, click to select the Sent Only To Me check box or any other check box that you want, and then click Next.
5. Under What do you want to do with the message?, click to select the Have server reply using a specific template check box.
6. On the Step 2: Edit the Rule Description page of the wizard; click the underlined phrase a specific message.
7. Compose a reply message in the Outlook Editor window. Fill in the subject field, click save and close.
8. Complete the Rules Wizard instructions, click Finish, and then click OK.

Since this is a server based rule, we don’t have to keep the outlook open in order for the rule to be applied.
Note: By default exchange doesn’t allow automatic reply message to be send to external user. You must allow it through Exchange System Manager.

Sunday, February 10, 2008

How to add Additional Mailbox in Microsoft Outlook 2003/2007

On Outlook 2003/2007, just click on tools > email account / account settings> click view or change email account.
Double click on Microsoft exchange server> click more setting > go to advance tab> add additional mailbox. Type "user name", click ok twice, and click next, finish, done.

Thursday, February 7, 2008

Receiving unwanted meeting related information in Outlook Inbox

Description
A user complains that he is receiving unwanted meeting related information in his Inbox. You examine the meeting details and found out that it doesn’t contain the user email address in the required, optional, or resources field. The meeting invitations were addresses to other email address.
Resolution
Most likely that one of the mailbox in the required, optional, or resources field of a meeting invitation has delegation setting to that user. On each mailbox, check the Delegate setting on Microsoft Outlook.
On Outlook, click Tools > Options > Delegates. See whether delegates are setup. Check on the permission details. Clear the ‘Delegates receive meeting related information send to me’.

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